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Job Description:

• The Client Department of Human Services (DHS), Office of Information Technology, is seeking a qualified candidate for the temporary contractor staffing position of AWS Administrator based.
• 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.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.