Cloud Administrator III

Overview:

Cloud Administrator III

Remote | US Based

US Citizenship or Permanent US Resident - Clearable; Ability to obtain a Public Trust Required

Must have continuously resided in the U.S. over the last three (3) years

Summary
Our client provides reliable, effective, and innovative technology solutions that advance federal, state, local, and nonprofit missions. Their technologists and consultants are passionate about solving complex challenges that impact millions of lives. Also, our client takes a Mindful Modernization approach in delivering our application modernization, grants management systems, government data analytics, and advisory services. Mindful Modernization is our client's way of delivering mission impact by aligning our government customers’ strategic objectives to measurable outcomes through people, processes, and technology.

Responsibilities

As a member of an integrated project team providing enterprise system and mobile application cloud support, the Cloud Systems Administrator is responsible for managing the instances of the Cloud infrastructure services and instances; overseeing and maintaining a multiuser computing environment – being mindful of cost-effective ways to fulfill technical requirements.  Working with minimal supervision, you will be responsible for designing, developing, configuring, implementing, and managing the systems that make up the underlying cloud environment/platform and the tools and automations used and created to support the platform. You will often be the go-to personnel to resolve and provide any assistance about system problems. Occasional on-call support required for after-hours, holiday, and weekends.

Additional job duties and activities include:  

• Implementing, communicating (for approval and awareness), and verifying cloud architecture and administration processes compliant with client policy, governance, and specifications
• Upholding and enhancing existing methodologies to reliably carryout your duties
• Developing and supporting innovative solutions to complex problems and automating routine and other burdensome activities
• Timely implementation of security configurations, patching, and other updates
• Integrate and implement approved new technologies; documenting where and as required

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years’ recent experience configuring and administering cloud environments and tools
• A Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field OR a total of 13 years’ relevant professional experience in lieu of BS degree
• Defining secure-based cloud architecture while adhering to development methodologies, engineering, and cloud standards
• Providing detailed guidance to engineering team members creating administrative processes and procedures
• Experience administering an AWS environment
• Supporting enterprise tools, services, and applications in a cloud environment
• Performing operational and day-to-day administrative support functions, including troubleshooting issues and support of change and problem management processes using Atlassian: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Crowd
  • Developing, deploying, and troubleshooting IAC environments using AWS kubectl and HashiCorp Terraform
  • Working within multiple Cloud Service Providers; e.g., AWS GovCloud, AWS Commercial, and Azure
  • Ability to support cybersecurity teams in conducting a security analysis and assessment of current processes and platforms and generate ad-hoc reports and guidance for team members or management
  • Ability to design solutions and recommend the most suitable design packages to improve current administrative security levels and performance
  • Identifying, tracking, remediating and documenting software, networking, and hardware vulnerabilities for-and-with the engineering, development, and cybersecurity teams
• Professional verbal and written communications skills that clearly, concisely, and properly conveys information the first time – thereby successfully avoiding miscommunications and/or providing inadequate information, reports, deliverables, and responses

Education/Certification Requirements

• A Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field OR a total of 13 years’ relevant professional experience in lieu of BS degree

Preferred Requirements

• Active Directory, Office 365, and other Windows-based technologies experience
• Ability to configure VMs, containers, and Web Applications
• Experience with administering Linux, Windows Server, Kubernetes, Elastic Search, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, Kiali, Hashi Corp Consul, and Hashi Corp Vault
• Experience with Python, Bash, Shell, Java, Go, and PowerShell
• Experience with Azure administration
• Relevant industry certification is desirable but not required

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Applicants must be able to pass an enhanced background check if needed.