Cloud/Platform/Systems Specialist
Techgene Solutions LLC
Des Moines, IA
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JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Des Moines, IA
POSTED
7 days ago
Role- Cloud/Platform/Systems Specialist
Location -Des Moines, IA 50309
Requierd skills
- Designed and administered AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise workloads.
- Created hybrid workload architectures enabling seamless identity, authentication, and application services across cloud and on-premises systems.
- Led migration of legacy systems to AWS, including modernization roadmaps and workload readiness assessments.
- Documented system architectures and developed AWS diagrams showing network topology, dependencies, and service interactions.
- Diagnosed and resolved complex AWS identity, networking, and compute-related issues impacting applications.
- Guided teams through hybrid dependency failures such as directory sync issues, routing conflicts, and IAM misconfigurations.
- Documented troubleshooting processes, root cause analyses, and long-term mitigation strategies.
- Eliminated single points of failure through resilient architecture design patterns.
- Implemented backup, disaster recovery (DR), and high availability solutions to meet RTO/RPO requirements.
- Developed performance dashboards tracking compute utilization, storage I/O, and network throughput across AWS and on-prem environments.
- Conducted root cause analysis for performance issues and documented remediation steps.
- Identified and implemented cost optimization strategies including instance rightsizing, storage tiering, and lifecycle automation.
- Maintained architecture diagrams, standards, IaC templates, and operational procedures in version-controlled environments.
- Prepared change impact assessments for major infrastructure updates.
- Created release documentation for platform updates deployed through CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistency with platform standards and automation rules.
- Defined Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards and collaborated on Terraform module development.
- Documented provisioning workflows, configuration standards, and parameter usage for automated deployments.
- Supported CI/CD pipelines promoting code across development, staging, and production environments with automated validations.
- Collaborated with engineering and application teams to optimize workloads for hybrid cloud environments.
- Provided guidance on migration strategies, performance tuning, and cost optimization for hybrid cloud deployments.
- Enforced AWS security best practices including encryption, MFA, IAM role boundaries, and network segmentation.
- Produced audit evidence such as configuration exports, pipeline logs, and system documentation.
- Documented platform hardening guidelines for compute, identity, and storage systems.
- Created policy interpretation guides to standardize platform configurations across teams.
- Developed operational guides, onboarding documentation, and "how-to" manuals for AWS and hybrid environments.
- Delivered platform standards, architecture references, and annotated diagrams explaining system interactions.
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