Senior AWS Cloud Administrator
About this role
This is a remote position.
Senior AWS Cloud Administrator
Job Summary
We are seeking an experiencedAWS Cloud Administratorwith 7-8 years of overall IT experience and strong expertise in AWS Cloud infrastructure management, administration, monitoring, security, networking and cost optimization. Candidate will be responsible for managing production cloud environments, ensuring high availability, implementing security best practices, supporting cloud migrations, and driving operational excellence across AWS workloads.
Experience Required
7-8 Years Overall IT Experience
Minimum 5+ years managing AWS production environments.
Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud workloads.
Strong background in Linux/Windows administration, networking, security, and automation.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
Manage, monitor, and maintain AWS production, staging, and development environments.
Provision and administer AWS resources using infrastructure best practices.
Design and maintain highly available and fault-tolerant cloud environments.
Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization.
Manage multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations.
Administer EC2 instances, AMIs, Auto Scaling Groups, and Launch Templates.
Manage Elastic Load Balancers (ALB/NLB).
Configure and maintain EBS, EFS, FSx, and S3 storage services.
Perform storage lifecycle management and optimization.
Manage VPCs, Subnets, Route Tables, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, and Security Groups.
Troubleshoot network connectivity and routing issues.
Configure VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, and VPC Peering.
Implement network security and segmentation best practices.
Manage AWS IAM Users, Groups, Roles, and Policies.
Implement least-privilege access controls.
Configure MFA, AWS SSO, and identity federation.
Support security hardening and compliance requirements.
Review and remediate security findings.
Implement AWS Backup solutions.
Configure automated snapshots and retention policies.
Develop and test disaster recovery procedures.
Maintain backup compliance and recovery objectives (RPO/RTO).
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions.
Automate cloud deployment and operational tasks.
Support CI/CD and DevOps integration initiatives.
Strong knowledge of ITSM process and tool – Incident ,Change ,Problem Management.
Cost Optimization & Governance
Monitor AWS spend using Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets.
Identify cost-saving opportunities and right-sizing recommendations.
Optimize Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and storage costs.
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