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Title: AWS Administrator {8+ Yrs. Exp.}

Location: Atlanta, GA (Remote until Covid)

Duration: 12 Months

The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS), Office of Information Technology, is seeking a qualified candidate for the temporary contractor staffing position of AWS Administrator biased in Atlanta, Georgia.

 The selected candidate will be responsible for the administration and maintenance of multiple AWS accounts within the state AWS infrastructure.

 Key Responsibilities:

 

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.

 

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

 

Experience with monitoring tools, middleware software and ITSM tools a plus.

 

Qualifications:

 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university and six years of operating systems analysis/administration experience

 

OR

 

Associate degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university and three years of operating systems analysis/administration experience

 

Five (5) years of Cloud Administration Experience

 

Excellent technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure, including switches, routers, wireless access points, server operating systems and hardware, storage arrays, and security applications

 

Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environments

 

Experience with automation using an established framework (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)

 

Strong technical knowledge of current protocols, operating systems, and standards

 

Able to read and understand technical manuals and procedural documentation

 

Experience documenting and maintaining configuration item information in ServiceNow or other ITSM platforms to support IT Asset Management functions

 

Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure

 

Experience working in an ITIL-driven environment and working knowledge of ITIL principles and processes

 

Required / Desired Skills:

 

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field combined with experience

Highly desired

 

 

           

 

AWS Certified

Required

 

 

Experience in AWS

Required

8

Years

 

Experience as a System Administrator

Required

8

Years

Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure

Required

8

Years

 

Experience with automation using an established framework (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)

Required

8

Years

Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environments

Required

8

Years

 

Experience in Cloud Administration

Required

8

Years

 

             

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