GA DHS - AWS Administrator

AWS Administrator

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 based in Atlanta, Georgia. Do NOT submit candidates previously submitted to #754575

We are seeking a skilled and motivated AWS Administrator to manage and optimize our Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be responsible 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 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.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize Amazon EKS clusters for containerized applications, ensuring high availability and efficient resource usage.
• 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 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.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university. Eight (10) years of Cloud Administration Experience.

Excellent technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure, including switches, routers, 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 (SaltStack, 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 in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure. Experience working in an ITIL-driven environment and working knowledge of ITIL principles and processes.