Location: To be confirmed, Remote / Hybrid
Language: English, strong written and spoken communication required
Background Check Requirement: Standard criminal record check
About the Opportunity
This permanent opportunity is ideal for an experienced infrastructure professional who enjoys combining hands-on AWS expertise with architecture, operational leadership, and continuous improvement. Youll help build and maintain secure, scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure while influencing standards and best practices across the technology environment.
Working closely with DevOps, Security, Application, Salesforce, and support teams, youll be a trusted technical resource and escalation point. Your work will directly contribute to platform reliability, business continuity, security, and the organizations evolving cloud strategy.
Whats In It for You
Youll have the opportunity to take ownership of complex cloud infrastructure while expanding your exposure across AWS, Salesforce, networking, disaster recovery, and infrastructure architecture. Youll join a collaborative environment where technical leadership, knowledge sharing, innovation, and continuous improvement are valued.
Your Responsibilities
Youll deploy, administer, monitor, and optimize highly available AWS environments using EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, EBS, Auto Scaling, and CloudFormation.
Youll design and manage AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, NAT and internet gateways, VPNs, and Direct Connect.
Youll automate infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks using Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
Youll lead infrastructure architecture initiatives spanning cloud and on-premises environments, establishing standards and reference architectures.
Youll design and test backup and disaster recovery solutions using AWS Backup, S3, Glacier, cross-region replication, and high-availability strategies.
Youll support Salesforce administration initiatives and collaborate across DevOps, Security, Application, and support teams.
Youll act as a technical lead, mentor junior engineers, support audit readiness, and provide after-hours support when critical needs arise.
Skills and Qualifications
10+ years of systems administration experience, including at least 3 years in an AWS SysOps Administrator or similar role, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and 15 years of experience.
Bachelors degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
Deep hands-on expertise with AWS infrastructure, networking, security, monitoring, performance, and cost optimization.
Required AWS certification in good standing, with additional AWS, Azure, Microsoft, Linux, or Salesforce certifications considered an asset.
Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
Demonstrated experience implementing backup and disaster recovery solutions, plus familiarity with Salesforce administration.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, collaboration, leadership, and communication skills.
Note from the Hiring Manager
Were looking for someone who can bring deep AWS expertise while also seeing the bigger infrastructure picture. Youll have the opportunity to lead technically, improve how we operate, and help the team build secure, reliable platforms for the future.
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