Job ID: TX-5372ITC858 (913091112)
Remote AWS/Linux Admin with scripts/automation, EKS service, agile and healthcare experience
Location: Austin TX (HHSC)
Duration: 9 months
The worker may be required to work remotely at HHSC discretion, up to 100 percent of the time.
Minimum Requirements:
YearsRequired/PreferredExperience
8RequiredExperience in supporting, maintaining, monitoring, and securing various AWS IaaS and PaaS services.
4RequiredExperience in establishing proactive controls to monitor the health of various AWS services to improve reliability of tools/applications.
4RequiredExperience in developing scripts to automate everyday operations such as taking backups and archiving logs.
4RequiredExperience in improving the security of various services based on zero trust model.
4RequiredDemonstrated experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting network issues.
4RequiredBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business or equivalent experience.
2RequiredExcellent oral and written communication skills.
2RequiredEffectively manage multiple responsibilities, prioritize conflicting assignments, and switch quickly between assignments, as required.
2RequiredAWS SysOps Administrator Certification. Validation number is required for verification.
2PreferredExperience in the administration of AWS EKS service.
2PreferredExperience working in an agile sprint team.
2PreferredPrior experience with an HHS agency
As the State of Texas rushes to address the many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become critical to rely on the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to provide reliable, up to the minute data regarding the current state of infection in the state. As DSHS works to provide this critical data to inform decision makers, health care administrators and citizens, the agency is experiencing serious limitations in the ability to efficiently and reliably provide the data due to a legacy of disparate systems and data that currently resides in numerous locations and databases across the agency. Sharing this vital data across all of these systems is inherently difficult, time-consuming, and requires resource intensive manual and inefficient processes. These cumbersome manual processes have a severe impact on Texas’ ability to respond effectively to the COVID-19 pandemic and prevent the loss of life.
The State Health Analytics and Reporting Platform (SHARP) project is intended to expand the capacity of current DSHS analytical infrastructure. An integrated approach to data services will aid in providing the most current data to inform decision makers about the health and readiness statuses of jurisdictions across the state. The SHARP platform will facilitate the sharing, reporting, and analytics of the data collected from various ingested datasets.
SHARP is hosted on the AWS cloud infrastructure and uses AWS IaaS and PaaS services extensively. This position is required to support, maintain, monitor, secure, and improve those services. Job responsibilities include
· Create, implement, and manage the development of scripts to automate everyday operations
· Monitor and maintain multiple environments for increase observability
· Coordinate system migrations and system upgrades working with agency’s public cloud manager.
· Develop tools to continuously improve maintainability, monitoring, security and scalability of cloud deployments.
· Operations support and enhancement of the SHARP platform
· All other duties as assigned.