Hybrid * Amazon Web Services (AWS) Administrator

Hybrid role, Must reside in Toronto and have five years minimum AWS
administration experience.

AWS Administrator Responsibilities are to set up and deploy those
Custom-Developed Applications and continuously monitor their health.
They also need to forecast and manage the demand for the apps, that
are hosted on the Azure platform. Finally, Admin needs to make sure
that Data is secured, access is secured, costs are monitored and
controlled, and the applications and data backed up.

The AWS Administrator will be responsible for providing technical
expertise in deploying applications on Microsoft Azure.

Key Responsibilities
• Establish configuration, compliance, and audit program to
effectively manage AWS accounts and resources
• Review cloud resources and cost drivers, compute, storage,
network, managed services, database and service licenses, marketplace,
and accounts.
• As part of our Managed Services offering for clients; monitor
rightsizing, elasticity, storage optimization, and identify unused
resources.
• Maintain cloud-based servers patching vulnerabilities,
backup/restore operations, provision new servers, configure firewalls,
configure monitoring systems.
• Manage account containerization and tagging for internal cost
centers and end client billing feeds.
• Monitor cost allocations, security compliance, 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 and storing
event logs for actions made within AWS accounts.
• Set controls to monitor to assure compliance.
• Experience with monitoring tools, middleware software and ITSM
tools a plus.
Qualifications
• Five (5) years of Cloud Administration Experience.
• Excellent technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure, including
switches, routers, wireless access points, server operating systems
and hardware, storage arrays, and security applications.
• Strong system administration experience in Windows and Linux
environments.
• Experience with automation using an established framework (Puppet,
Chef, Ansible, etc.).
• Strong technical knowledge of current protocols, operating
systems, and standards.
• Able to read and understand technical manuals and procedural
documentation.
• Experience documenting and maintaining configuration item
information in ServiceNow or other ITSM platforms to support IT Asset
Management functions.
• Experience in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or
Azure.
• Experience working in an ITIL-driven environment and working
knowledge of ITIL principles and processes.