Cloud System Administrator

Wanted: Cloud Administrator

Location: Dublin/Remote

Rate: 450-500 per day

Contract length: Minimum 12 months with extension up to 48 months

 

Technical Knowledge required to fulfil this role. Knowledge with both AWS and/or Azure essential. Candidates possessing excellent skills in one cloud platform will also be considered.

 

Azure

 

Identity

• Azure AD Connect
• Azure Active Directory, &
• Azure Active Directory B2C
• Multi-Factor Authentication

 

App Service Plan - Microservices

• Traffic Manager,
• Redis Cache,
• Service Bus,
• Key Vault,
• Send Grid, &
• Scheduler

 

Azure SQL Database

• Azure SQL Database, &
• SQL Failover Endpoint

 

Azure Storage

• Blob
• File, &
• Queue
• Storage Sync

 

Azure App Service Web/API Apps

 

Azure Application Insights

 

AWS

 

Data Stores

• Elastic Search
• Amazon S3
• Postgres

 

CMS

• SilverStripe CMS
• PostgreSQL Database

 

Platform, Environment & Workflow

• Airflow
• RabbitMQ
• RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux)
• Ansible
• Bitbucket

 

The following non-exhaustive list of Key Deliverables, are applicable to the intermediate Cloud Services Administrator sought;

 

AWS & Azure

* Implement, maintain, support, develop and in some cases, design cloud environments.

* Ensure the integrity of high availability cloud infrastructures to provide maximum performance for users and the public

* Deploy IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services

* User and identity management

* Monitor & Configure auto scaling including triggers and alerts

* Liaise with development team

* Assist with migration of workloads from local cloud to cloud tenancies

* Provide training, technical advice and direction to other members of the team

 

1) Experience of developing, managing and maintaining IaaS and PaaS cloud environments.

 

2) Automating cloud services, scaling cloud services and monitoring using of cloud network and services

 

3) Experience migrating workloads from private cloud to AWS or Azure.

 

4) Relevant educational or professional qualifications: It is not a minimum requirement for the proposed resource, for this role, to have specific educational or professional qualifications. However, marks may be awarded in accordance with the scoring methodology set out in part 3 of this SRFT where the resource:

 

Has obtained a Level 8 qualification in a relevant computing and/or computational discipline and/or at least 2 relevant professional qualifications/certifications completed in the last 5 years (which may include but are not limited to: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (or above), CompTIA Cloud essentials , Microsoft MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, Microsoft other (MTA, MCSA, MCSD, MCSE), CISSP, CCNA