Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on Linux/Windows/ESXi
• systems, using tools like SCCM, Satellite, Spacewalk
•  Maintain OS configuration using Configuration Management tools like Ansible
• Support file/printer servers and manage AD resource permissions
• Manage external digital certificate requests and external DNS provider
• Participate in Data Center consolidation, and migration to the cloud (AWS)
• Provide hands on operational support for Firewalls, Routers, Switches and associated Security related devices.
• investigate and resolve network and security incidents
• Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning
• Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
• Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
• Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes
• Design and document SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for system administration activities
• Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments
• Must be able to participate in periodic on-call rotation
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision, is self-motivated and able to define, plan and implement long-term goals, tasks and projects

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or Engineering or information systems or related field (or equivalent experience) required
• Good understanding of AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, Route53 and Kubernetes
• 7+ years Windows/VMware/Linux systems administration experience
• Scripting skills: highly skilled in a at least two typical scripting languages (shell/bash, PowerShell, Perl, python, ruby)
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Satellite, Spacewalk etc.
• Experience designing and maintaining AWS-based systems
• Experience configuring Linux/Windows guests in a VMware ESXi environment
• Experience supporting Microsoft Exchange, preferably in a hybrid environment
• Strong understanding of Active Directory and related technologies, especially DNS and DHCP
• A thorough understanding and management of Microsoft applications: ADFS, PKI, SCOM, KMS, MBAM, RDS, IIS, and SQL
• 2+ years of Office 365 experience including migrations from on-premises highly desired
• A full understanding of Microsoft Office 365 administration and experience supporting complex environments with emphasis on Exchange and SharePoint Online
• In-depth knowledge related to the Office 365 applications and features including Azure Directory
• Excellent problem solving, multitasking, troubleshooting skills and attention to details are required to work in this challenging and dynamic environment
• Windows client OS image building (preferably using MDT) is a plus
• SCCM experience for patch management, application deployment, and OS deployment is a plus
• Knowledge of SSO integration between Office 365 and major SSO providers like Okta
• Good understanding of Cisco switches, DMVPN, Palo Alto Network firewall
• Comfortable working with third parties and managed service providers
• Strong knowledge related to email security (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC) and security best practices in general and mail client/server troubleshooting
• Strong documentation skill, analytical, organizational, and problem solving skills, as well as accuracy and attention to detail
• Very strong interpersonal, customer service, result oriented and team building skills are essential
• Jamf experience for MACs management is a plus
• Any Linux (RHCT, RHCE and LPIC), AWS certifications or Office 365 MCSA will be plus