Senior AWS Cloud Systems Operations Administrator

Position:                             Senior AWS Cloud Systems Operations Administrator

# of position(s):   9 (nine)

Type:                                      Full-Time / 5-year federal contract

Location:                              San Antonio, TX 100% onsite         

Clearance:                           US Citizen & TS/SCI           

Certification(s):                   IAT level II & RHCE (Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer (RHCE)

                                                Security + (Preferred)

Education:                            Bachelor’s in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent); A master’s degree may substitute for 2 years of experience.

Experience:                          10 years of overall experience in one or more of the functional area’s listed below.

• AWS Cloud Practitioner (Foundational)
• AWS SysOps Administrator (Associate)
• Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster
• Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• RH294: RHEL Linux Automation with Ansible

Proficiencies with AWS tools such as: Kubernetes, EKS, Diode, Lambda, etc. (not all inclusive) Orchestrated/deployed in a cloud environment.

Required Skills & Duties:

• 10 years IT systems administrative experience with both Microsoft and Linux platforms.
• Proficient understanding of maintenance (patching, STIG, and upgrade processes) on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience and/or training in system administration related to ability to manage and operate workloads on AWS systems.
• Demonstrated experience in system administration support and management related to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Demonstrated experience in system administration and supporting development and test teams in AWS and along with an applied understanding of Kubernetes and traditional RHEL servers.
• Kubernetes CKA certification and/or training with one year applied experience on containerized platforms.
• Provides subject matter proficiency for work described in the task.
• Provide analytical skills to support process improvement, specialized studies, and definition of requirements.
• Analysis, planning, developing requirements documents, building functional models, developing procedures, developing functional architectures, and other related management and technical duties.
• Must have experience deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS as well as implementing security controls and compliance requirements.
• Familiarity with using both the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).
• Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework as well as AWS networking and security services

In lieu of certifications, AWS DevOps candidate must have professional or education training in at least one of the lists below:

• Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster
  • Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  • RH294: RHEL Linux Automation with Ansible
  • AWS SysOps Administrator Training/Experience in:
    • Creating an AWS Account
    • AWS Account Activation Troubleshooting
    • Code & Slides
    • IAM & AWS CLI
    • EC2 Fundamentals
    • High Availability and Scalability: ELB & ASG
    • Aws Fundamentals: RDS + Aurora + ElasticCache
    • Route 53
    • Amazon S3 Introduction
    • Advanced Amazon S3
    • Amazon S3 Security
    • CloudFront & AWS Global Accelerator
    • AWS Storage Extras
    • Decoupling Applications: SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Active MQ
    • Containers on AWS: ECS, Fargate, ECR & EKS
    • Serverless Overviews
    • Database in AWS
    • Data & Analytics
    • Machine Learning
    • AWS Monitoring & Audit: CloudWatch, CloudTrail & Config.
    • Identity & Access Management (IAM) – Advanced
    • AWS Security & Encryption: KMS, SSM Parameter Store, Shield, WAF
    • Networking – VPC
    • Disaster Recovery & Migrations
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Training/Experience in:
    • Code & Slides
    • Cloud Computing
    • Identity and Access Management
    • EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud
    • EC2 Instance Storage
    • ELB & ASG – Elastic Load Balancing & Auto Scaling Groups
    • Amazon S3
    • Databases & Analytics
    • ESC, Lambda, Batch, LightSail
    • Leveraging the AWS Global Infrastructure
    • Cloud Integrations
    • Cloud Monitoring
    • VPC & Networking
    • Security & compliance
    • Machine Learning
    • Advanced Identity
    • Account Management, Billing & Support
    • AWS Architecting & Ecosystem

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