Job id : NC-563171 (98790709)
AWS Cloud Administrator With Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP, Jenkins, TerraForm, and Vagrant, RedHat/CentOS 6 and 7/Ubuntu and Infrastructure Experience
Location: 109 East North Street, Raleigh NC 27601
Duration: 06 months
Interview – Either Webcam Interview or In Person
SkillRequired / DesiredAmountof Experience
AWS experienceRequired2Years
Full LAMP stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) experienceRequired3Years
Experience with DevOps tools and practices such as Jenkins, TerraForm, and Vagrant.Required3Years
Linux experience (RedHat/CentOS 6 and 7/Ubuntu)Required3Years
Experience with Git or related code repositories.Required3Years
Experience with agile processes (team uses Jira for ticket prioritization) a plusNice to have1Years
Experience with debugging and application monitoring services.Required3Years
Experience with “Infrastructure as Code” practices preferred.Highly desired3Years
The AWS Cloud Administrator will work closely with the Senior AWS Administrator to support a well-architected, modern AWS environment that powers about 50 key Drupal websites and applications as a part of the Digital Commons platform.
This position is assigned to the Digital Solutions team of the Department of Information Technology Services and will provide operational and technical support for a modern infrastructure-as-a-service platform (Amazon Web Services).
The AWS Cloud Administrator will work closely with the Senior AWS Administrator to support a well-architected, modern AWS environment that powers about 50 key Drupal websites and applications as a part of the Digital Commons platform. You will work with key AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, as well as support web/digital operations such as handling redirect requests and code deployments.
The Digital Solutions technical team works in a DevOps-oriented fashion and leverages tools such as TeamCity and TerraForm. The Cloud Administrator will also work closely with Drupal/PHP Developers who build, test, deliver, and manage modern, scalable, and secure web and digital solutions. In addition, the candidate will interface with our platform team, who onboard new websites and services to the Drupal platform for our agency partners.
The candidate will not simply be in a corner taking tasks, but contributing ideas, feedback, best practices, and his or her hard work to help us build, grow, and manage a 21st century web and digital presence for North Carolina state government.
Learn more about Digital Commons:
https://it.nc.gov/programs/digital-commons
Learn more about the Director of Digital Solutions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDyd-ZF0Rlc
Other key responsibilities include…
•Research, promote, and implement DevOps-oriented solutions that leverage AWS services and product to meet state agency and citizen needs.
•Contribute to automation of systems and services to deliver solutions rapidly, securely, and at scale.
•Develop and operationalize continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) processes and methodologies.
•Improving our security posture
•Manage web and application operations such as URL redirects and SSL domains.
•Provide day-to-day technical support for AWS platform.
•Assist with continual improvement of process and procedures.
•Handling customer support tickets of a backend/hosting nature
The right candidate will be…
•Excited to make a positive impact on the delivery of digital services, resources, and content for our state agency partners and citizens.
•Eager to responsibly leverage AWS cloud services to innovate
•Be willing to work outside of core business hours in the event of an emergency or a significant project launch or code deployment.
•Follow security, scalability, and performance best practices
•Prefer open source and be rooted in LAMP stack technologies.
•Willing to support traditional web operational tasks (i.e. customer support tickets for redirects)
Culture
•Strongly collaborative. We use Slack to quickly solve problems and share solutions.
•Work in 2-week sprints, using tools such as Jira
•Organize and engage our digital community. Learn about our recent “We Are NC Gov” event, which attracted technologists, IT professionals, communicators and more.
https://it.nc.gov/we-are-nc-gov
•Enjoy occasional team lunches together