Cloud System Administrator

Braxton Technologies, LLC, a division of Braxton Science & Technology Group (BSTG), a technology solutions company, has an opening for a Cloud System Administrator to support our growing business.

The RDT requires a full time cloud system administrator responsible for maintaining & executing cloud product strategy for core infrastructure services. This person will identify operational requirements and implement/test appropriate solutions. The individual’s tasks will require deep understanding of infrastructure services in the context of a both the commercial cloud environment and its integration within a highly-secure large-scale enterprise network and make recommendations on how new cloud offerings fit in the environment.

Overview

Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Job Title: Cloud System Administrator
Salary: Competitive, commensurate with industry standard and experience
Shift: M-F, Days
Travel: Occasional travel possible up to 25%

Position Responsibilities

• Master application, technology and cloud operations.
• Maintain a cloud and security mindset throughout the life cycle of the solution.
• Research areas of improvements and design/implement enhancements working with the Cloud DevOps and Product Development teams.
• Monitor AWS resource utilization and provide reports and notifications on potential limits.
• Monitor application runtimes and key business processes.
• Maintain configuration management and service delivery and help in capturing time and material data for efficiency analysis.
• Develop and automate Amazon AWS based topologies and processes.
• Create best practices for cloud operations and be consultative to project teams throughout duration of a project.

Minimum Security Clearance

• DOD Secret Security Clearance is required.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Extensive experience as operator of production environments in large application deployments.
• Experience automating enterprise class applications or cloud topologies.
• Experience with designs consuming cloud services/technologies, specifically on AWS (EC2, EBS, ELB, KMS, IAM, STS, CloudWatch, S3, VPC, security groups).
• Strong analytical skills and broad product knowledge.
• Experience on server platforms specifically Windows 2012/2016 and Linux flavors is required.
• Extensive experience with OS security involving Active Directory, Windows networking, Group policies, DNS, PKI & Certificates, LDAP, NACL.
• Extensive experience writing Python, Windows Powershell, or Perl scripts.
• Experience with performance monitoring and scalability factors in information systems.
• Good grasp of concepts like distributed systems, multi-tenant systems, network protocols, network security, SSL, PKIX, routing, and load balancing.
• Understanding of operational concepts like change management, on call rotations, escalations, uptime, etc.
• Experience implementing controls from NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, ICD 503, RMF, DoD ILs.

Education and Training Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or similar field

Minimum Years of Experience

• 5+

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Each Division of BSTG is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.