The company is looking to manage and optimize its cloud infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to ensure high availability, security, and performance. This involves overseeing day-to-day operations, automation, cost management, incident response, scalability, security best practices, and aligning cloud operations with business objectives.
Requirements
- AWS certifications required, with preference for: AWS Certified Solutions Architect and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.
- Five years of experience managing a cloud operations teams.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in an AWS operations or engineering role required.
- Experience with monitoring, automation, and cloud management tools (CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Terraform, Jenkins) required.
- In-depth knowledge of AWS services, architecture, and best practices.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, and compliance standards.
- Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and incident management skills
Responsibilities
- Oversee the design, deployment, and management of AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.).
- Set up and maintain monitoring tools (e.g., Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail) to track the health and performance of cloud resources.
- Respond to incidents and troubleshoot issues within AWS environments to ensure minimal downtime.
- Enforce AWS security best practices.
- Analyze and optimize AWS spending, implementing cost control strategies such as Reserved Instances, spot instances, and rightsizing resources.
- Drive the adoption of infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like AWS CloudFormation.
- Automate deployment, scaling, and management of cloud resources to streamline operations and reduce manual intervention.
Other
- Lead and manage a team of cloud operations engineers responsible for AWS infrastructure.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, network, integration, and security teams to align AWS operations with business goals.
- Ensure HIPAA compliance and company policies regarding data security and privacy.
- May be called to work off hours, weekends and holidays to provide technical support to the Institution.
- Required to carry a pager at all times.
