Cloud Systems Administrator

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and the systems hosted in it.
• Design, deploy, and manage Active Directory including users, groups, systems, permissions and hierarchy, organizational units, and group policy objects; build and integrate AD Federation Services.
• Manage and maintain virtualized environments and support operating system and application virtualization.
• Analyze, design, develop, and deploy systems in a technically complex environment.
• Provide operations and maintenance for fielded systems including security patching, backup and restore, upgrades, and lifecycle replacement.
• Research and recommend automated approaches to system administration; write and maintain scripts.
• Perform performance tuning and resource optimization, and produce performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Remediate Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) security findings in coordination with the information assurance team.
• Provide Tier III support for complex issues and lead recovery from system failures.
• Document the environment, systems, and processes, and transfer knowledge of system configurations to the core government project team.

Required Qualifications

• Able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust suitability determination.
• At least 2 years of cloud computing administration experience.
• At least 7 years of systems administration experience.
• AWS experience including VPC, EC2, AMI, GuardDuty, Bastion, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS Config integration.
• Extensive Active Directory experience: design, deployment, and management; users, groups, and permissions hierarchy; OUs and GPOs; ADFS.
• Experience managing VMware ESX/ESXi.
• Experience working with IIS and SQL Server.
• Experience administering SharePoint environments.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP and other networking principles.
• Critical-thinking skills to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in a small, complex IT environment with or without direction from the government IT team.
• Prominent effective written and verbal communication, teaming, and customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize workload, and provide guidance to others.

Preferred Qualifications

• Scripting experience with Ansible, AWS CLI, or PowerShell.
• Federal cloud or compliance experience including FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, or FISMA.
• AWS certification (Solutions Architect or SysOps).
• VMware VCP.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations.
• Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility standards.