Cloud DevOps Systems Administrator

Responsibilities include: 

• Administrating and life-cycle management of a complex environment.
• Maintains the integrity and security of systems.
• As required, virtually supports users (other engineers, app developers, etc.) with completing requests for deployment of new services or addressing current service interruption.
• Maintains system documentation.
• Patching of servers and systems.
• Schedules and delivers backups, file restores and disaster recovery.
• Supports and develops automation.
• May program in an administrative language such as Bash, PowerShell, Python.
• Develops and implements testing strategies and document results.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technologies as assigned. 
• Participates in special projects as required.
• Adheres to the principles, methods, and techniques used in system and network administration and support.
• Maintains/enhances knowledge of related AWS cloud services.
• May require professional certification in one or more specific technologies, depending on job assignment.
• May be required to work outside of “normal” work hours to include weekends and holidays.
• Independently provides advance level technical interpretation and solutions in the management of data availability, durability, and protection.
• Troubleshoots access policies that are moderate to high complexity in scope.
• Monitors and tunes the system to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Applies practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through work experience continuous learning
• Work across teams, and external customer groups to develop strategy, design solutions, and advise implementation teams during deployment.
• Deal with escalations. Make assessments, recommendations or provide solutions to resolve issues.
• Experience leveraging cost optimization and cloud elasticity
• Experience working with infrastructure as code for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Assist decision makers with budget forecasting for workload data/resources
• Write and maintain standard operating procedures and work instructions, knowledge articles, etc.

Required skills and experience:

• BA/BS (or equivalent experience), 5+ years of experience (Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related area is preferred)
• Experience with Cloud Computing, active cloud certification in AWS
• Must be able to pass an EPA agency background check
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment, preferably Jenkins
• Experience managing, maintaining, and securing Java Application Servers
• Experience with AWS or similar high availability configurations and use of multiple availability zones
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience delivering presentations to diverse audiences at various levels of an organization
• A strong understanding of business processes and expertise in managing operations following the ITIL processes

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Desired skills and experience:

• Experience with Linux, Red Hat and other systems
• Experience with Server STIGs, patching, Vulnerability Management.
• Experience with Atlassian Suite
• Experience with backups, file store, DR recovery, and related

Skills and Attributes:

• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and requirements
• Motivated team player
• Continuous learner