Cloud SysOps – Patching & Backup Administrator - Remote

Location(s): Remote: we will have locations throughout the US which will be available (CT, NY, MA, VA, GA, TX, etc.)

Type: Contract project long term (till end of 2020 with possibility to extend after).

Work Auth: US Citizen / US Soil “NO C2C”

Baseline Requirements:

• Strong verbal and written English communication skills
• Experience with Agile project management, and Jira and Confluence
• Ability to take requirements, break down into stories and tasks, estimate work, report status and issues, and execute with limited oversight

Responsibilities:

• Monitor cloud infrastructure to ensure availability and performance SLAs are met.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with Patching & Backup Technologies
• Follow incident, change, release, and problem management processes.
• Provide backup and recovery support for cloud resources including executing disaster recovery procedures and supporting disaster recovery testing.
• Monitor and report on compliance programs.
• Collect, aggregate, analyze and report on metrics collected.
• Clean up and decommissioning of unused or uncompliant resources.
• OS patching
• Tagging and Account Management.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5 years IT/IS operations experience
• Proficiency with Agile and DevOps tools
• Hands-on experience with Terraform Enterprise and/or Ansible Tower development.
• Experience operating in government regulated environments with strict compliance requirements.
• Experience with scripting tools like; Chef, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc
• A keen interest in new technologies and open source
• Willingness to research and self-study to keep technical skills relevant in a highly complex environment