Cloud Administrator Job Description
Cloud administrator
provides technical support, administration, and monitoring of Linux, Microsoft, and Mac systems within a VMware virtual environment.
Cloud Administrator Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Perform tasks within an infrastructure and enterprise configuration management solutions
Apply systems administration and network engineering expertise in Linux and UNIX operating systems, network routing technologies, enterprise storage solutions, and distributed computing techniques
Perform tasks within a DevOps environment and work in an integrated working environment with software developers, supporting rapid infrastructure deployments
Configure and fine tune client tenant space to include provisioning of Administrator accounts
Provide support, troubleshooting, and design for our cloud and VMware environment
Perform operating system administration for local and remote systems including installation, software patch, system security, data backup, disc array management, and problem analysis activates
Make recommendations and/or participate in system architecture and design
Collaborate with IT teams to define and develop documented policies, procedures, and processes such as operational run books and system monitoring
Make presentations to executive team, customers, client audiences, and professional peers
Be on call on a rotational basis to support essential business clients and emergency situations
Cloud Administrator Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Cloud Administrator
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, AWS, II, IAT, SSL, ISO27001, DSD, CE, VCP, S3
Education for Cloud Administrator
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the cloud administrator job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Education, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Administration, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Business
Skills for Cloud Administrator
Desired skills for cloud administrator include:
Development of high-performance and fault-tolerant systems
Linux system administration
Microsoft Windows Server / Active Directory
GNU/Linux systems
DNS
Experience with monitoring
Metrics collection
Reporting using open source tools
Analytical needs and requirements
PaaS and SaaS environments
Desired experience for cloud administrator includes:
Two years experience administering Microsoft SQL Server and/or other database technologies
Patch Management/Software deployment
Project management and rollout experience
Experience with other 3rd Party applications (please list them)
You'll bring at least 5 years of Oracle system administration experience in an enterprise environment required
You have extensive ERP system administration experience supporting Accounting close in areas related to GL, Cash Management, Allocations, Fixed Assets, Intercompany, Consolidations and Tax highly preferred
Cloud Administrator Examples
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a cloud administrator. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for cloud administrator
- 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
Qualifications for cloud administrator
- 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
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Our growing company is hiring for a cloud administrator. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for cloud administrator
- 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
Qualifications for cloud administrator
- 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
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of cloud administrator. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for cloud administrator
- 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
Qualifications for cloud administrator
- 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
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of cloud administrator. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for cloud administrator
- 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
Qualifications for cloud administrator
- 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
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of cloud administrator. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for cloud administrator
- 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
Qualifications for cloud administrator
- 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