Cloud Administrator Job Description
Cloud Administrator Duties & Responsibilities
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Cloud Administrator Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Cloud Administrator
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Education for Cloud Administrator
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Skills for Cloud Administrator
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Cloud Administrator Examples
Cloud Administrator Job Description
- Responsible for administering cloud-based informatics solutions
- Troubleshoots issues, performing root cause analysis, and implements corrective/preventive actions
- Responsible for executing various software development lifecycle (SDLC) activities including design verification, testing, and promotion
- Builds and maintains effective long-term relationships with internal and external customers and suppliers
- Operates within assigned budget and demonstrates fiscal responsibility
- This position requires periodic system administration outside normal business hours
- Software license administration
- Overall systems management
- Manage entire lab configuration to include documentation, installation, planning, configuration and evaluation of new hardware
- Collect and collate discrepancy report (DR) and system failure data, sort this data for differentiation of affected systems, and provide this data to the Government
- Experience with Microsoft Federated Identity Management
- Experience with continuous integration deployments
- Experience using Windows PowerShell for scripting
- Experience with VMware 5.x and or virtual server deployments
- Experience with Citrix implementation and support
- Experience with Amazon AWS services and/or Microsoft Azure
Cloud Administrator Job Description
- Administer our Google G Suite applications, Office 365 licensing, and Adobe Creative Cloud accounts
- Manage Box, Box Sync, and document storage
- Establish and validate endpoint backups with Code42-hosted CrashPlan PROe
- Assist with maintaining accurate inventory, asset tracking, and change management
- Mentor and assist co-workers and vendors for continuity of policies and procedures instituted by our team
- Be a part of our rotating on-call support for cloud application and network related issues
- Monitors server logs, firewall logs, intrusion detection logs, and network traffic for unusual or suspicious activity
- Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation and orchestration
- Evaluate, respond to, and resolve service issues
- Design systems monitoring and management solutions using automation and self-repair rather than relying on alerts and human intervention
- Have a degree in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Information Technology, or Engineering with 5+ years of IT industry experience and 3+ year experience in deploying Windows Servers in a virtual environment
- 2+ years experience managing and monitoring large Hadoop clusters
- 2+ years experience writing software scripts using scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or Ruby
- 2+ years experience in the implementation and technical support of multi-platform, multi-system networks (CISCO and UNIX or Linux-based hardware platforms) including diagnosing network performance shortcomings and designing and implementing performance improvements
- 2+ years experience implementing network solutions for complex, high performance systems composed of UNIX or Linux-based hardware platforms
- Experience with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, CloudBase/Acumulo, Big Table
Cloud Administrator Job Description
- Ensuring system availability, performance, capacity, and continuity through proper response to incidents, events and problems
- Basic understanding of security technologies (Digital Certificates, LDAP, PKI, SSO, SSL
- Experience in installation, administration and configuration of Middleware technologies (Web/App/Messaging tiers) a plus
- Experience with Docker container technology is a plus
- Design, develop, install, configure, administer, and maintain highly scalable, available, and elastic solutions that implement industry best practices using AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP and on premise hardware
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code concepts, feels comfortable managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files
- Install and configure virtual cloud instances in AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Support on prem and cloud servers, including security configurations, patching, and troubleshooting
- Resolve system emergencies with impact on the integrity of user data and systems
- Follow, design, configure, implement, and maintain system security strategies, policies, and procedures
- Minimum of 4 years with Linux/Windows server administration
- Proficient with MS Server 2003-2012, RHEL, Cisco IOS, MongoDB
- Must have experience in the stand up and management of Barracuda application fire wall
- Good understanding of cloud deplyment technologies
- Senior level experience in supporting application and database servers
- Strong experience with IIS
Cloud Administrator Job Description
- Develop scripts for automating client/server functions monitor those automated systems recovery solutions
- Act as project owner on large-scale computing projects in which strong technical and directional skills are necessary
- Support infrastructure deployment models, including Private, Public, and Hybrid
- Maintaining a general level of expertise in Code Green, ProofPoint, Active Directory, Exchange, Office 365, Azure, AWS, GCP, and other Windows based technologies
- Ability to configure VMs and Web Applications through Azure Web Portal and Command Line Interface through PowerShell
- Help us support our portfolio of Business Systems, including salesforce.com, EchoSign, Gainsight, and integrations with Netsuite, OpenAir, Successfactors, home grown systems, and more
- Work with our our Support team on Service Cloud and Communities
- Implement new systems and/or new functionality
- Run projects end to end - you are the administrator and the business analyst
- Collaborate with your team - involve your fellow team members and support them when needed
- Experience in scripting languages such as Powershell or Python
- In-depth knowledge of and experience with platform hardware and OS level support
- Understanding of enterprise class SAN, NAS, and backup technologies
- Expert level knowledge of Windows Server and Linux administration and engineering
- Minimum of five years of systems administration experience
- Certification in AWS, Azure, VMware, MS (MCSE), Linux
Cloud Administrator Job Description
- Document what we have done and what we are doing
- Analyze and improve data quality
- Troubleshoot and fix errors - we like to eradicate problems by the root, not the cheap and quick manual fix
- Set up and welcome new users
- Secure resources to begin deployment of the SMB solution (Purchase servers, lease space)
- Provide operational assistance to customers consuming services through the department of Research Applications and Advanced Computing
- Build, install, configure, analyze, tune, and troubleshoot Windows operating systems both on premise and in cloud IaaS providers
- Resolve difficult system problems and provide user consultation or training
- Configure systems based on approved designs of system and network security
- Configure, implement, and maintain system security strategies, policies, and procedures
- SUSE Certification is a plus
- Redhat linux experience with at least 6-7 years of hands on experience
- Working with multiple vendors to find root cause of the infrastructure and OS issues
- Working with global teams across the platform
- GPFS experience in SUSE environment or Linux environment
- Other OS skills are added value like AIX , HACMP, Clustering experience