Senior Cloud Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee and sustain AWS development, testing, staging, and production environments for the WARP permitting platform.

• Administer AWS Marketplace subscriptions, encompassing procurement, provisioning, renewals, and decommissioning processes.

• Track environment health and performance through AWS CloudWatch and other observability tools.

• Assess and resolve alerts, incidents, and service interruptions.

• Handle AWS support tickets and collaborate with AWS technical teams.

• Manage consumption throttling for compute, storage, AI/ML, and data services alongside the FinOps Cloud Engineer.

• Facilitate cross-AZ and cross-region data transfers, AWS KMS key management, CloudTrail audit logging, centralized S3 log archival, and AWS Backup.

• Oversee Databricks cluster provisioning, storage management, and networking.

• Administer user access and personnel tracking for contractors and Government personnel.

• Inform the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) of personnel departures or changes in roles.

• Maintain security agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and documentation of DOI Rules of Behavior.

• Assist with Certification & Accreditation (C&A) documentation, contingency planning, and security assessment materials.

• Conduct system administration solely within Government-designated environments.

• Complete the annual DOI IT Security Awareness Training and ensure compliance with DOI, FISMA, and FedRAMP regulations.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree along with 10 years of professional experience, or a Master's degree with 8 years of professional experience, or an Associate's degree with 12 years of professional experience, or a high school diploma/equivalent with 14 years of professional experience.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Capability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

• All work must be performed within the United States; international work is not permitted.

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in system or cloud administration, including at least 3 years in AWS environments.

• Experience managing multi-environment AWS cloud platforms at an enterprise or federal level.

• Proficient in AWS core services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, Fargate, ECS/EKS, VPC, and AWS Backup.

• Experience with implementing and enforcing IAM policies, Service Control Policies (SCPs), Service Quotas, and access governance in AWS Organizations.

• Familiarity with AWS KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and centralized log archival to S3.

• Experience in managing AWS Marketplace subscriptions and procurement workflows.

• Knowledge of IAM best practices, principles of least privilege, and federated identity management.

• Understanding of ETL pipelines and operations of cloud data platforms.

• Familiarity with administering Databricks clusters, including configurations for compute, storage, and networking.

• Understanding of AWS Organizations, tag policies, service quota management, and multi-account governance.

• Familiarity with DOI security policies, incident reporting requirements, and C&A processes.

• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-34 and NIST SP 800-64.

• Ability to develop and maintain system documentation, runbooks, contingency plans, and incident response records.

• Prior experience in FedRAMP Moderate or higher cloud environments.

• Experience managing AWS support relationships and escalating technical issues with cloud vendors.

• One or more certifications listed, or the ability to obtain one within 90 days: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate; AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.

🏝️ Benefits

• Potential eligibility for overtime.

• Potential eligibility for shift differential.

• Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus.