Cloud Administrator

Job Description

The Cloud & Infrastructure Administrator will be responsible for providing support for all activities related to cloud and infrastructure across a variety of platform and operating systems. This individual must possess a thorough understanding of cloud and infrastructure technology backed with hands-on operational experience on one or many cloud platforms. This position plans, implements, oversees and maintains cloud based server and network infrastructures and projects. The position is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. They will ensure all the Enterprise’s systems are up and running smoothly 24/7.

Provide hands-on cloud and infrastructure system administration & troubleshooting expertise

Consult with management to understand business needs and strategies to translate into technology plans and recommendations

Maintain functional expertise on the latest compute, storage, networking and virtualization technologies including surrounding industry best practices

Review and operational requirements with project teams, management and client services groups for deployment and ongoing support

Develop documentation for best practices as it relates to server infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud computing technologies

Build, configure, and maintain development, test and production servers. Support development, test and production servers including after-hours support and monitoring server usage and up-time

Design, implement and maintain a consistent backup and disaster recovery plan

Provide technical direction on network topologies, server configurations, hardware/software deployments, firewall configurations and other administrative tasks related to the staging and maintenance of company development, testing and production servers

Ensure timely and effective delivery of hardware upgrades, network upgrades, OS upgrades, and new configurations

Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks, Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale

Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups

Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions

Repair and recover from hardware or software failures, coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies

Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning

Design backup and disaster recovery protocol processes for server and associated data

QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of relevant professional experience administering cloud or infrastructure services across a large, diverse, server environment

Technical proficiency including systems experience, strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, and issue management in a multi-platform environment

Demonstrated experience, training, or certification with a major Public Cloud platform such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc.

Demonstrated experience with Linux administration (RedHat/CentOS 7.x/8.x)

Demonstrated experience with Jenkins Deployment

Demonstrated experience with GitHub and Repo Updates (Branch/Master Merging)

Demonstrated experience with Atlassian Products such as Jira and Bitbucket

Demonstrated experience with Terraform and Ansible

Demonstrated experience with Docker and EKS clusters

In depth knowledge of IP networking, VPN, DNS, load balancing, CDN and firewall technologies

In-depth knowledge of directory services, authentication technologies, Active Directory/LDAP, etc.

Knowledge of system and network security best practices including governance

Knowledge of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases

Knowledge of NoSQL databases MongoDB and Amazon DocumentDB

Knowledge of architecture best practices and experience applying them to solve business challenges

BS degree in a computer discipline or relevant certification

Problem solving skills and ability to think algorithmically

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and assistance

Ability and discipline to work and succeed in a fast pace and organizationally complex environment, to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology, and to lead and manage small projects

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