AWS Cloud Administrator, Senior

Parsons Corporation

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented AWS Cloud Administrator to join our team! In this role, you will play a critical role in bridging the gap between our development and operations teams. You will be responsible for managing and maintaining various AWS Cloud-Native services within a large enterprise space, encompassing compute, container, storage, and networking services central to supporting DCSA applications. You will work closely with our partners as well as data engineers, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure that our data-driven strategies are effective and aligned with our organizational goals. This role supports remote work, with occasional onsite attendance required for customer-facing meetings in Columbia, MD.

Requirements

Active Top Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent field
A minimum of 4-6 or more years of experience an AWS Cloud Administrator role
AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, or AWS DevOps engineering certification
Security+ (this cannot be substituted with other security certs)
Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include services such as VPC, EC2, EKS/ECS, IAM, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevSecOps tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Artifactory, GitLab or CloudFormation
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, flexible environment, and take the initiative to learn new tools and concepts quickly

Nice To Haves

Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk
Knowledge of security best practices and tools for DevOps
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies

Responsibilities

Integrate various tools and technologies to streamline workflows and improve efficiency.
Manage and configure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
Monitor and maintain the health, performance, and scalability of cloud-based applications and infrastructure on the AWS platform.
Support existing cloud environments or deploying new cloud environments with little team lead supervision.
Perform regular maintenance of these environments and troubleshoot issues as they arise.