AWS System Administrator

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ABOUT THE POSITION

The Senior AWS System Administrator operates, maintains and improves a secure, reliable and cost-conscious AWS platform. The role combines hands-on administration across a multi-account environment with operational leadership, infrastructure automation, disciplined change delivery and recovery preparedness. It provides technical guidance to colleagues and helps translate approved business and architectural requirements into supportable cloud services.

Required capabilities

Demonstrated hands-on administration of production AWS environments, including multi-account governance, IAM, networking, compute, storage, monitoring and backup. Sound understanding of the AWS shared responsibility model, least privilege, encryption, secure configuration and operational resilience. Ability to diagnose complex infrastructure issues across service boundaries and manage incidents and changes with clear risk and escalation decisions.

Practical Terraform, Git and CI/CD experience, with the ability to create maintainable infrastructure code and review deployment plans. Competence with the AWS CLI and scripting in Python, Bash or PowerShell, plus Linux and/or Windows administration relevant to the estate. Working knowledge of container operations and managed database infrastructure, including when to involve specialist teams.

Strong written documentation, stakeholder communication and technical mentoring skills. Ability to prioritize competing operational demands, work independently within delegated authority and collaborate on cross-team problems.

Preferred capabilities

Relevant current AWS operations, architecture, DevOps, security or networking certification. Deeper experience with Control Tower, IAM Identity Center and Entra ID integration; hybrid and cross-region networking; EKS or ECS/Fargate; PKI and mutual TLS; or regulated data retention and recovery testing.