Remote Wintel AWS Sysadmin.

NTT DATA, Inc. currently seeks a senior system administrator (SYSADMIN)- Full Time - to join our team in Mexico.

Location: Remote

NTT Data Services is looking for an energetic fast learning and self-motivated person that has strong technical and team leadership skills, able to work well with groups on a global level, and a consultative approach and problem-solving abilities to enable our business partners to operate more effectively.

Requirements:

• Perform installation, customization and maintenance of the Windows Server operating system and system software products in support of business processing requirements for both On-premise and Cloud environment
• Expert in Windows, AWS Cloud Administration, OS/server administration, patching, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Proficient in operating and troubleshooting AWS services like EC2, networking, RDS, backups, storage (EBS, EFS, S3, Glacier), and security (Well-Architected framework).
• Possesses a strong understanding of networking concepts for configuring secure VPCs, subnets, landing zones, ACLs, and security groups.
• Experience in end-to-end cloud migrations, including strategy, assessment, design, architecture, and execution on AWS.
• Skilled in identifying and migrating suitable applications and workloads, gathering migration requirements, and collaborating with stakeholders.
• Good knowledge of various AWS services like Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Transfer Family, CloudWatch, EC2, EFS, EKS, Step Functions, ELB, ACM, Directory Services, and networking.
• Hands-on expertise in designing, architecting, deploying, and supporting hybrid cloud environments.
• Up-to-date on emerging technologies like cloud security, container orchestration (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm), and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Salt, Puppet).
• Works closely with Site Reliability Engineers to analyse and resolve cloud security issues within production applications.
• Assists in implementing identity and access management solutions (SSO) for systems and applications.
• Configures cloud monitoring with native tools and integrations (ITSM, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.).
• Strong understanding of PaaS to IaaS migration strategies.
• Adept in scripting (Python) and automation (Terraform experience preferred).

Responsibilities as SA:

• Perform installation, customization and maintenance of the Windows Server operating system and system software products in support of business processing requirements for both On-premise and Cloud environment
• Evaluate and integrate new operating system versions, drivers and hardware.
• Provides in-depth diagnosis for operating systems software/hardware failures and develops solutions.
• Monitors and tunes the system to achieve optimum performance levels in standalone and multi-tiered environments.
• Conducts system analysis, configuration management and develops improvements for system software performance, availability and reliability.
• Implements appropriate levels of system security. Maintain security patching and remediating vulnerabilities, propose solutions for the same.
• Perform incident resolution, problem determination and root cause analysis in accordance with service level. Knowledge of ITIL.
• Recommend and implement modifications to the server environment, Innovation, Ideas to improve
• Preparation of Standard Documents and periodically review them for modifications
• Identifies opportunities for process and procedure enhancements to drive efficiency and customer service levels.
• Maintain Server Inventory updated and accurate.
• Maintain checks for server's backup and monitoring solutions.
• Provides technical expertise for system transitions, migrations and consolidations.
• Understands and foresees implications of decisions.
• Knowledge of industry and business principles.
• Presents problem analysis and recommended solutions in a creative and logical manner.
• Independently develops solutions that are thorough, practical, and consistent with functional or customer objectives.
• Forecasts, models, and utilizes advanced analytical tools.
• Creates new procedures and processes to drive desired results.
• Handles diverse range of issues that require evaluation of a variety of factors including current business trends.
• Articulates pros and cons of an action in a clear manner.
• Develops skills to analyze ambiguous problems.
• Enhances own knowledge through understanding business trends and objectives.
• Regularly interacts with colleagues or customers generally up to senior level management
• May provide technical guidance or influence the work of others.
• Updates management on project/activity status.
• Contributes to area by ensuring quality of tasks/services provided by self and others.

Basic Qualifications:

• 12+ years of overall experience
• 6+ years of AWS experience
• 6+ years of experience working in a diverse cloud support environment in a 24*7 production support model.

Preferred Certifications:

• AWS SysOps Administrator/Solutions Architect Associate Certifications
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification

Work Timings:

• Should be willing to work in a rotational shift with a 24x7 support window.

Benefits

•  Negotiable salary
•  Grocery Tickets - 12% of base salary
• 30 days of Christmas bonus
• 5 personal days per year
• Medical insurance (You and your family)
• Life insurance
• Opportunity to grow in the company

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