System Administrator AWS (Work from Home)

Full Job Description

We are looking for a system administrator who is familiar with the AWS environment to build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our infrastructure. What is it that you'll do? You will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security. Qualified system administrators will have a background in IT, computer systems engineering, or systems engineering and analysis.

• Manage and monitor installed systems and infrastructure
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• Provide 2nd and 3rd level support
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX /Linux based environments.
• Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks (e.g.,Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX)
• Solid AWS experience, preferably with certifications
• Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware, Virtual Box) is an added advantage
• Experience with Git and automated deployment tools (e.g., Bamboo, Jenkins, Beanstalk, AWS CodePipeline, Codedeploy, etc.)
• Experience and understanding of Infrastructure as Code, Automation, and Orchestration including hands-on experience with CloudFormation Templates. Terraform a plus
• Hands-on experience on containerization technology such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with SSL/TLS Certificates management.
• Experience with management of relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
• Experience with automation software (e.g., Puppet, cfengine, Chef)
• Solid scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)

• Work From Home
• Paid Time Off
• Flexible Working Time
• Medical