Cloud Systems Administrator – 12 month term

If you are an AWS Associate Level Solutions Architect residing in Alberta ready for a 12 month term position, we would love to hear from you!

The Cloud Systems Administrator - Architecture provides technical administration capabilities in the analysis, design, development, implementation, security, and testing of technical enhancements in the cloud infrastructure in support of strategic, operational, or project-based objectives. The Cloud Systems Administrator ensures these activities are executed in accordance with the standard operating procedures and in compliance with all IT policies and procedures. 

Responsibilites:

• Deploy and Maintain Infrastructure:  Deploy, configure, and maintain cloud, hybrid, and on-premises compute and storage infrastructure in a secure, performant, and cost-effective manner using infrastructure-as code and automation tools.
• Incident Response: Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, remediate issues, and write incident
  reports for senior leadership. 
• Resiliency:  Design and implement high availability, redundancy, failover solutions and processes.
• Disaster Recovery:  Design and implement repeatable and scalable backup and recovery solutions that meet business requirements for RPO and RTO
• Observability:  Ensuring system observability through metrics, logs, and notification mechanisms.
• Documentation:  Writing clear and comprehensive documentation for system and network architecture, infrastructure as code, and system integrations  to improve maintainability and knowledge sharing.
• Continuous Learning:  Keeping up with industry trends, new technologies, and best practices.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years’ progressive experience in Cloud Systems Administration, with an emphasis on cloud architecture implementation projects or related technology implementations.
• AWS Associate-level Solutions Architect certification required.
• Diploma or degree in computer science, management, or engineering, recognized in Canada. In lieu of a degree or diploma, additional experience over and above the minimum requirement may be considered.
• AWS Advanced Networking specialty certification preferred.
• Understanding of current cloud best practices, design principles, market trends and emerging technologies.
• Solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts and understands principles of routing, client/server programming and managing network services.
• Experience in applying cloud security rules, network security and securing web transactions, applications and forms.
• Additional AWS certifications desired.

David Aplin & Associates Inc., operating as Aplin, and its associated brands, CompuStaff and Impact Recruitment, is an award-winning employment agency connecting diverse, top-tier talent with exceptional organizations across North America. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and charge no fees to apply or engage with our recruiters. Our clients partner with us to help expand and diversify their teams. Please note that all applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada, including holding any necessary work permits.