MITRE Corporation - McLean, VA
posted about 2 months ago
Full-time
McLean, VA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
The AWS Systems Administrator at MITRE will be responsible for operating and continuously improving the AWS Cloud Data Warehouse and other AWS-based business applications. This role involves planning, process analysis, performance tuning, system upgrades, and providing production support for AWS environments, ensuring the integrity and security of data while optimizing system performance.
Responsibilities
- Setting up and managing AWS Cloud environments that support MITRE Internal Business Systems
- Monitoring system performance
- Implementing security practices and managing access controls in AWS
- Ensuring data integrity and access controls
- Assessing the health and performance of AWS services
- Oversight and governance
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with relevant experience
- Proven work experience as an AWS System Administrator or similar role
- Experience with AWS services to design, deploy and manage applications and infrastructure
- Experience with automation tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit to deploy infrastructure and applications
- Knowledge of system security and data backup/recovery
- Understanding of Information Technology security best practices to ensure safe handling and storage of sensitive data in the Cloud
- Ability to create scripts in Python or other language
Nice-to-haves
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate certification is a plus
- Experience with Infrastructure as a Code to codify and manage the infrastructure as software
- Experience with Cloud-based data products including virtual data warehouse tools such as Denodo
Benefits
- Competitive benefits
- Exceptional professional development opportunities
- Culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth
