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Cognosante AWS Cloud Administrator in United States

Security Clearance required:

Able to obtain Public Trust

Job Description

Cognosante is seeking to fill an AWS Administrator position in support of VA (Veterans Affairs) Cloud Operations and Migration Services (COMS) capability to provide operational input and support for the operations, maintenance, and refinement of VA’s Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) environment, execution support for migrating new and legacy VA applications and services to cloud computing and continuous improvement of VA’s IT infrastructure. The candidate will support our VA clients in their cloud operations to enhance, optimize, and maintain their computing capabilities across their technical landscape. This includes working with our Cloud Architects when interviewing clients to understand application and infrastructure current state. Working with our Cloud Architects leading client working sessions to identify, categorize, prioritize and analyze data and information to work into cloud migration action plans. Working with the larger project teams to migrate legacy applications to their cloud platform. The Cloud Administrator must have expertise with Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), Amazon Web Services (AWS).

As an AWS Administrator, you will design and develop and determine the best solutions for unique application client requests. As a part of our vision and innovation the Cloud Services team will help our organization adopt Cloud native solutions. This key role will work with business stakeholders and senior leaders to deliver on complex, enterprise-level initiatives that are a part of the company's overall strategic direction. To be successful in this role the candidate must have deep knowledge cloud technologies and align technology solutions to specific business objectives and have experience working with mid size teams.

Key responsibilities:

  • Attend and contribute to all Provisioning meetings, working sessions, analysis meetings as part of the VLMF

  • Assist with troubleshooting Sustainment requests within Windows and Linux servers

  • Assist with AWS concepts for new technologies as per request by ECSO leadership

  • Attend daily standup meetings and work tickets as assigned

  • Work with the AWS Lead to troubleshoot application team requests

  • Utilize automation tool such as Jenkins, Git, CloudFormation, Terraform or similar for Provisioning

  • Work with business stakeholders and senior leaders to deliver on complex, enterprise-level initiatives that are a part of the company's overall strategic direction

  • Assist Cloud Architects to provide operations and migration services that enable VA to tailor the availability and delivery of cloud computing services based on business and technical requirements

  • Utilize the future VA Enterprise Cloud Operational Tools (VAECOT), CSP native portals and tools, and/or other VA TRM-approved tools necessary to provide operations and migration support

Must Have Qualifications:

  • A minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline OR AWS (AWS Professional / Specialty Cert.) OR 4 years of relevant experience in one of the VAECOT suite of tools (Science Logic, Dynatrace, Turbot, AppDynamics).

  • 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education.

  • Experience implementing, migrating, managing, and operating systems/applications in an enterprise cloud computing environment

  • Experience with ALL VAEC Cloud Service Providers which currently includes Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Able to pass a background check to obtain a Public Trust (High-Risk) Position

  • Must be a U.S. citizen

Candidates that do not meet the minimum qualifications will not be considered.

Preferred Qualifications (soft skills, preferred, nice to have)

  • Previous Federal Government experience preferably at VA

  • Experience with VA’s configuration of Digital.ai Agility and Service Now Toolset for management, configuration and reporting of work products.

  • Experience working in a CMMI-DEV or CMMI-SVC environment at Maturity Level 3 or above

  • One or more Microsoft or Amazon cloud certifications

  • ITIL certification or experience with ITIL

  • Active clearance for Public Trust (High-Risk) Position

  • Experience with tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Git, CloudFormation, AWS CLI, Azure PowerShell, or similar

  • Experience writing technical documentation, especially in relation to Cloud architecture

  • Minimum of four (4) years of network engineering experience in AWS environments. Experience includes:

  • Setting up, configuring and maintaining network communications including LAN/WAN systems in IT system and/or cybersecurity environment.

  • Designing and implementing functional network infrastructure.

  • Installing and configuring networking hardware.

  • Creating and implementing network security measures.

  • Manage network performance.

  • Troubleshooting and resolving network issues with cloud service providers.

  • Working knowledge of federal network standards and guidelines.

  • Recommend changes in methods or procedures.

What We Offer  

Our mission is to provide comprehensive and competitive pay, benefits, services, and programs to eligible employees and their dependents that: 

  • Ensure optimal health and productivity of our employees  

  • Support employee retention and attraction 

  • Provide work/life balance to ensure our employees succeed inside and outside of the office 

Compensation

$96,760.98 - $154,817.56

The pay range for this job is determined by various factors, including but not necessarily limited to location, responsibilities of the job, and alignment with market data. When determining a salary for this role, the following factors may be taken into consideration - contract-specific affordability, education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience. The estimate displayed represents the salary range for this position and is just one component of Cognosante’s total compensation package for employees. It is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee.

Cognosante will not provide sponsorship for employment-based immigration benefits for this position.

What We Promise  

Cognosante employees are inspired by our bold mission to improve lives. To achieve this mission, we put our people first. No matter where they're located around the nation, our innovative workplaces enable individuals to apply their skills and experience to work toward a greater good.

We foster a winning culture of solution creators built on innovation, collaboration, flexibility, and work-life balance. And we invest in the next generation of diverse talent to foster an inclusive, progressive, adaptable workplace that prioritizes advancement for all. As an affirmative action employer, we are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.  

 

Your safety during your job search is important. Recruiting communications will always be sent through one of the following corporate domain emails (@cognosante.com or @accurate.com).

We will never send communications through any other domain, including @cognosantecareers.com, @gmail.com or @yahoo.com). We will never request payment from you, nor will we send payment to you, prior to your start date. If you have been asked to send or receive any payment, or if you have any doubt about whether you have been contacted by a Cognosante employee, please contact us at jobs@cognosante.com

At Cognosante, we innovate with purpose. Each day, we create meaningful change by delivering mission-driven solutions for healthcare, civilian, and defense government agencies. When you work at Cognosante, you’ll apply your talents and grow your career with an organization that believes in the missions of our customers – and the right every employee has to an inclusive, flexible, and collaborative workplace. Work with us, and you’ll be challenged and supported—and have the platform to elevate your career to wherever your professional aspirations lead.​

Get to know Cognosante employees

  • We’re driven by our customers’ missions, and measure success by how we improve lives.

  • We believe innovative solutions start with an innovative culture.

  • We believe customer understanding is the key to creating innovative solutions.

  • We know we are stronger together, and we value the diversity of our people.

  • We believe growth should be a core job benefit.

Like many other companies, Cognosante has been targeted by scammers making fraudulent job offers to potential candidates. As shared on our company website (https://cognosante.com/careers/) , communications from Cognosante recruiting are only sent with an official corporate domain email (e.g., @cognosante.com) and not a commercial domain e-mail (e.g., @gmail.com or @yahoo.com)). We will never request payment from an applicant, nor will we send payment to an applicant, prior to that individual’s start date.

We want to recommend a couple of ways that you can report this incident and take action against these scams:

-The FBI: File a Complaint (https://www.ic3.gov/Home/FileComplaint)

-The FTC: Report Fraud (https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/)

Also, if you're not sure where to report the scam, you can find some guidance here: Where to report scams | USAGov (https://www.usa.gov/where-report-scams) .

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