AWS CLOUD SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

ALTA IT Services has a 100% remote, 12 month+ contract opening for an AWS Cloud Systems Administrator to support a leading health insurance customer within their Enterprise Informatics Environment. The position must be worked during EST hours. Potential for contract to hire.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work independently within guidelines, be responsible for coordinating and working with 3rd party vendor to manage AWS platform, software upgrades, application deployments, patch installations, security request and incident management.
• Candidate will work directly in the client's AWS environment providing support and guidance to all technical teams.

Top 3 Required Skills/Experience:

• Excellent analytical, logical reasoning, analytical organizational, verbal, and written communication skills, and attention to details a must.
• Must be able to exhibit in relation to data integration and management.
• Coordination of infrastructure and platform changes with 3rd party vendor and managing tickets and change requests via Cherwell.

Qualifications:

Education and Years of Experience:

• Minimum three (3) years' experience in a delivery or consulting role leading Information Management related initiatives is required.
• Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred

Required and Desired Skills/Certifications:

• Experience in Web Administration.
• Knowledge of Kafka and Docker
• Knowledge of Apache and Apache Tomcat
• Knowledge of AWS RDS (Postgres and Redshift)
• Responsible for submitting and coordinating changes with vendor (AIP)
• Understanding of Information Security for data protection, governance, and security preferred
• Knowledge and experience in AWS cloud technologies
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and EKS
• Knowledge of DevOps, Jenkins and CloudBees
• Experience in building and managing pipelines is a plus.

Additional Requirements:

• Work with Architecture, and stakeholders to understand business needs for Hardware, Software to expand the capabilities of the platform/environment.
• Lead, create, and collaborate with cross functional teams for AWS RDS projects.
• Lead the implementation and administration of Apache/Tomcat web applications.
• Lead DevOps initiative to develop and maintain pipelines in Informatics Environment
• Manage, monitor vendor processes to align with client processes and adhere to corporate standards and policies.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Other related skills and/or abilities may be required to perform this job.

HOURLY RATE: $48/HR. Range W2. Benefits available. C2C is OK

For consideration, please contact Melissa McNally via mmcnally@altaits.com

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