Dunhill Professional Search Looking for Cloud Administrator II at Washington, DC Full Time

General Summary

ASM is currently looking to hire Cloud Administrators with 2-3 years’ hands-on experience working in Azure or AWS. Their experience should include 4-6 years of experience in working with Infrastructures with a focus on Unix administration including patching and security hardening. Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management automation is a plus.

Job Responsibilities

• Provides direct support to cloud operational environments on a day-to-day basis including the software installation, configuration, upgrades, security patches and planned maintenance as required.
• Installs or coordinates installation of patches and releases on development, test, pre-production systems.
• Conducts moderately complex analysis including planning, designing, and evaluating a variety of information technology tools.
• Monitors, diagnoses, and resolves complex problems and performs analysis in relation to cloud operations in the cloud environment.
• Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex problems in an efficient manner with little to no supervision while adhering to proper escalation and change control procedures.
• Performs incident response and assures services resolution for cloud system.
• Performs root cause analysis, diagnostics, and monitoring on various production systems.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements and works with team members to implement efficiencies.
• Effectively creates and maintains relevant cloud systems documentation and user guides.
• Secures Cloud applications and data against theft, loss, or other disasters.
• Monitors status and performance of backup and/or storage systems and configures monitoring systems.
• Interacts with external technology vendors and internal teams to troubleshoot issues and implement solutions.
• Apply scripting methodologies to automate IT administrative related tasks.
• Responds timely to user requests for permission changes, file restores, virtual machine restores, new storage, and expansion requests.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in working with infrastructures with a focus on Unix administration and 2-3 years of experience with of experience developing solutions in AWS .
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Clear oral and written communication skills and attention to detail
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and DevOps
• Practitioner level cloud certification such as AWS-CCP (AWS)

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