The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a AWS Administrator in Atlanta, GA.

Role Description

We are seeking a skilled and motivated AWS Administrator to manage and optimize our Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of AWS solutions, ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of our cloud environments.

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.
· Deploy, manage, and optimize Amazon EKS clusters for containerized applications, ensuring high availability and efficient resource usage.
· Implement Kubernetes best practices such as auto-scaling, high availability, and fault tolerance, while managing deployments, services, secrets, ConfigMaps, and other resources within EKS.
· 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.

Skills & Requirements

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university. Eight (10) years of Cloud Administration Experience.
· Excellent technical knowledge of IT Infrastructure, including switches, routers, 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 (SaltStack, 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 in public cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure. Experience working in an ITIL-driven environment and working knowledge of ITIL principles and processes

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays’ guiding principles is ‘do the right thing’.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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