We areseeking a skilled and motivated AWS Administrator to manage and optimize ourAmazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The ideal candidate will beresponsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of AWS solutions,ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of our cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities:
· Establish configuration, compliance, and audit program toeffectively manage AWS accounts and resources Review cloud resources and costdrivers, compute, storage, network, managed services, database and servicelicenses, marketplace, and accounts.
· As part of our Managed Services offering for clients;monitor rightsizing, elasticity, storage optimization, and identify unusedresources.
· Maintain cloud-based servers patching vulnerabilities,backup/restore operations, provision new servers, configure firewalls,configure monitoring systems.
· Deploy, manage, and optimize Amazon EKS clusters forcontainerized applications, ensuring high availability and efficient resourceusage.
· 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 internalcost centers and end client billing feeds. Monitor cost allocations, securitycompliance, 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 andstoring event logs for actions made within AWS accounts.
· Set controls to monitor to assure compliance. Experiencewith monitoring tools, middleware software and ITSM tools a plus.Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field from anaccredited college or university. Eight (10) years of Cloud AdministrationExperience.
· Excellent technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure,including switches, routers, server operating systems and hardware, storagearrays, and security applications.
· Strong system administration experience in Windows andLinux environments. Experience with automation using an established framework(SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.).
· Strong technical knowledge of current protocols, operatingsystems, and standards. Able to read and understand technical manuals andprocedural documentation.
· Experience in public cloud environments, including AWSand/or Azure. Experience working in an ITIL-driven environment and workingknowledge of ITIL principles and processes.
| Skill | Required /Desired | Amount | of Experience |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field combined with experience | Required | 0 | |
| Experience in AWS. | Required | 10 | Years |
| Experience as a System Administrator. | Required | 10 | Years |
| Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure. | Required | 8 | Years |
| Experience with automation using an established framework (SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.). | Required | 8 | Years |
| Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux environments. | Required | 10 | Years |
| Experience in Cloud Administration. | Required | 10 | Years |
| AWS Solution Architect. | Required | 0 |
| No. | Question |
|---|---|
| Question1 | Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that the resource can be reached during his or her absence. The Client has the right to dismiss the resource if he or she does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you accept this requirement? |
| Question2 | Please list candidate's email address that will be used when submitting E-RTR. |
| Question3 | Candidate must be paid the rate of - if selected for engagement therefore the SRP rate cannot exceed -. Do you accept this requirement? |
| Question4 | The maximum mark-up for this engagement’s SRP rate is 35%. To be competitive on pricing, a mark-up below the 35% threshold is suggested. Do you agree to propose a mark-up at or below 35%? |
| Question5 | This assignment is contingent upon customer renewal and availability of adequate funding. Do you accept this requirement? |
| Question6 | The selected candidate will be expected to start their engagement no later than 2 weeks (10 business days) from the client’s selection date. Do you accept this requirement? |
| Question7 | Remote Work Permitted: Due to COVID-19, the client has agreed to allow the selected candidate to work remotely for the time being. However, the selected candidate must be available to report onsite as directed by the client. Do you accept this requirement? |