AWS Administrator - Virtual Company
Charlotte, NC 28208
About the Job
Join our IT infrastructure and operations team as an AWS Systems Administrator, where you’ll play a vital role in ensuring site reliability, configuring, administering, and supporting AWS environments within a mixed Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows server ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and maintain production environments, ensuring system health and availability.
- Support platform infrastructure and applications to ensure optimal performance and scalability.
- Drive improvements in software reliability, quality, and time-to-market within a cloud environment.
- Measure and optimize system performance, implementing forward-looking solutions to enhance cloud infrastructure.
- Provide primary operational support for large, distributed software applications.
- Implement best practices, manage backups, and recommend AWS services and automation opportunities.
- Monitor AWS workloads, alerting the business of impacted services and resolutions.
- Collaborate with application and corporate infrastructure teams to align projects with business needs and timelines.
- Ensure secure environment implementation, generating necessary security logs.
Specific Duties
- Configure and support AWS services including EC2, S3, Auto Scaling, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- Administer development, test, and production environments hosted on the cloud.
- Conduct analysis, recommend, and implement solutions for system requirements.
- Partner with application engineers to resolve issues and optimize performance.
- Ensure system uptime and performance meet or exceed service level agreements (SLAs).
- Assist with capacity planning, AWS service deployments, and application rollouts.
- Manage virtual and physical cloud resources to enhance scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Develop a detailed understanding of application functionality and architecture.
- Design practical monitoring solutions and participate in cross-functional meetings to drive successful implementations.
- Maintain comprehensive internal documentation of all activity related to applications and environments.
- Troubleshoot operational issues, assisting with upgrades, installations, and configurations.
- Perform additional duties as assigned
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
Privacy Notice
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries (“we,” “our,” or “Vaco”) respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.
- California residents may access Vaco’s HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
- Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
- Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
- Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
- Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.
Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
