[Remote] AWS Administrator

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lumicity is recruiting for an unnamed top-tier AI company seeking an AWS Cloud Operations Engineer / Systems Administrator. The role focuses on infrastructure reliability, lifecycle upgrades, security hardening, patching, operational automation, and monitoring across AWS environments.

Responsibilities

• Upgrade & Version Management: Own end-to-end planning and execution of software, runtime, and infrastructure upgrades across AWS workloads
• EOL/EOS Remediation: Systematically identify and upgrade systems, operating systems, third-party dependencies, and managed service engines (e.g., RDS, ElastiCache) approaching end-of-life or end-of-support
• Large-Scale Patching: Manage major patching programs and OS/middleware updates with minimal to zero operational impact and downtime
• Operational Automation: Build self-healing mechanisms, functional automation scripts (Bash, Python), and monitoring improvements to eliminate manual toil
• Health & Performance Monitoring: Track metrics using Datadog and CloudWatch to optimize system health and prevent performance bottlenecks

Skills

• •USC/ GC Holder Only
• 3+ years of dedicated AWS administration experience across core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS)
• Proven track record of managing large-scale patching initiatives and major version upgrades for OS and middleware
• Hands-on proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS SSM, and Atlantis
• Practical experience writing system management scripts (Bash, Python, etc.) to automate operational tasks
• Hands-on experience using Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, or similar observability tools
• Experience managing multi-cloud environments (Azure or GCP)

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