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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.  Manage timely billing feeds to finance and conduct monthly audit on accounts.  Support Finance and Billing teams in understanding Amazon charges for invoicing.  Experience with monitoring tools, middleware software and ITSM tools a plus. 

Qualifications: 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university and six years of operating systems analysis/administration experience.  Associate degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university and three years of operating systems analysis/administration experience.  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.  AWS certified.

Experience required: 6 Years