What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Administrator position at Synectics?
Description
- We are seeking a skilled and motivated AWS Administrator to manage and optimize our Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.
- The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of AWS solutions, ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of our cloud environments.
- Establish configuration, compliance, and audit program to effectively manage AWS accounts and resources.
- Review cloud resources and cost drivers, compute, storage, network, managed services, database and service licenses, marketplace, and accounts.
- As part of our Managed Services offering for clients; monitor rightsizing, elasticity, storage optimization, and identify unused resources.
- Maintain cloud-based servers patching vulnerabilities, backup / restore operations, provision new servers, configure firewalls, configure monitoring systems.
- Deploy, manage, and optimize Amazon EKS clusters for containerized applications, ensuring high availability and efficient resource usage.
- Implement Kubernetes best practices such as auto-scaling, high availability, and fault tolerance, while managing deployments, services, secrets, ConfigMaps, and other resources within EKS.
- Manage account containerization and tagging for internal cost centers and end client billing feeds.
- Monitor cost allocations, security compliance, budgets and set alerts across accounts, workloads, and users.
- Use AWS Config to monitor and track resource configuration.
- Set standards for resource configurations, evaluate configuration compliance, and risk, and remediate configuration drift.
- Use AWS CloudTrail for compliance audits by recording and storing event logs for actions made within AWS accounts.
- Set controls to monitor to assure compliance.
Qualifications
Benefits :
Healthcare Insurance : Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.
Dental Insurance : Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.
Vision Insurance : Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.401(k) Plan : The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first enrollment date that is at least 30 days after employment begins. Enrollment dates are each January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st.
Technical Certification Bonus : Synectics is pleased to award its employees a bonus of up to $500 for an approved professional certification. In determining the bonus amount, Synectics will consider the cost of the test(s) for any certification relating to your current position, achieved during your employment with us. Only one Certification Bonus per calendar year may be awarded per employee. Only current, active employees will be eligible to receive this bonus. It will be awarded 90 days after the Synectics office has received documentation confirming the successful completion of the certification.
Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.
