Cloud Platform Administrator - EDP

The Squires Group•Washington, DC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Our client is a financial institution providing the United States with a safe, flexible, and stable monetary system. They are seeking a Cloud Platform Administrator. In this role you will manage, secure, and optimize cloud-based EDP environments by provisioning and administering AWS GovCloud infrastructure, implementing monitoring, operational procedures, and secure configurations, as well as coordinating networking and integrations, automating administration, conducting capacity planning, maintaining documentation, and facilitating user onboarding and enablement. This role is hybrid in Washington, DC, for local candidates and remote for non-local candidates. Per our client contract, candidates must be US Citizens or Green Card Holders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in integration, systems analysis, or programming within cloud environments.
Minimum of 5 years of experience developing systems requirements and design specifications.
At least seven years of demonstrated experience developing software across full Software Development Lifecycles (SDLCs), including DevOps, Agile, Lean, Iterative, and Waterfall methodologies.
Experience designing, deploying, and migrating secure and maintainable systems across Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments.
Experience implementing DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and related cloud deployment best practices.
Experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or ServiceNow.
At least 3 years of experience building AWS infrastructure using Terraform and developing CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps or GitLab.
Strong AWS expertise, including IAM roles and policies, object storage security patterns, VPC networking fundamentals, and logging/monitoring integrations.
Hands-on experience with AWS security and networking services, including PrivateLink, Secrets Manager and Systems Manager integrations, CloudWatch/CloudTrail, S3 bucket policies, cross-account access patterns, and KMS encryption key management.
Proficiency in Identity and Access Management concepts, including SSO, SCIM provisioning, group-based RBAC, service principals, and least-privilege design.
Strong understanding of security fundamentals, including secrets management, secure connectivity, audit logging, access monitoring, and evidence-ready operations.
Understanding of cloud federation technologies such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect for enterprise and public-facing systems.
Familiarity with government cloud compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP and FISMA.
Strong automation skills using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including Terraform, CLI tools, and REST APIs to enable repeatable configuration and environment promotion.
Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Go.
Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud-ready architectures.
Understanding of cloud-based architectures, including web/application servers, caching, load balancers, and storage services.
Experience with networking fundamentals, including route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP, and the OSI model.
Familiarity with stateless system design and cloud-ready application best practices.
Ability to evaluate new technologies for alignment with current infrastructure architecture.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with clear communication during incidents and change activities.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain platform monitoring and alerting capabilities, operational dashboards, and system health checks; manage and update runbooks and operational procedures.
Provision, configure, and administer AWS GovCloud infrastructure components supporting EDP environments, including networking, compute, storage, IAM, and logging/monitoring services.
Establish and sustain standardized “secure-by-default” configurations in alignment with agency security requirements, including baseline hardening, patch coordination, and configuration management.
Manage and support cloud services for data and analytics platforms, including storage integrations, encryption/KMS implementations, secure service endpoints, and VPC architectures.
Oversee operational monitoring and alerting, system health checks, runbooks, and incident response activities in collaboration with platform and security teams.
Administer change management processes for system upgrades, feature deployments, configuration updates, and integration modifications; document impact assessments and rollback strategies.
Implement and maintain audit logging and access/event visibility controls; support security assessments and evidence requests.
Configure and manage logging and audit mechanisms (e.g., CloudTrail/CloudWatch patterns) and assist with evidence collection for security and compliance initiatives.
Partner with network and security stakeholders to implement secure networking architectures, including private connectivity, egress restrictions, and firewall/proxy controls.
Design, deploy, and manage POC environments (isolated accounts/VPCs as applicable), ensuring repeatability, cost management, and proper decommissioning.
Collaborate with cloud and network teams to enforce secure connectivity standards and guardrails, including private connectivity models, egress controls, and firewall/proxy requirements.
Establish and enforce cost governance measures, including cluster policies, auto-termination settings, scheduling controls, workload sizing standards, and capacity planning practices.
Analyze usage and cost data to provide optimization recommendations and mitigate waste drivers such as idle compute resources, oversized clusters, and inefficient jobs.
Automate platform administration and configuration through APIs, CLI tools, and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) to minimize manual drift and enhance consistency.
Maintain comprehensive platform documentation, including configuration baselines, security and governance standards, onboarding materials, and troubleshooting guides.
Oversee third-party integrations and ecosystem connectivity, including BI tool integrations (e.g., Power BI) and external metadata catalog connections.
Perform capacity planning and scalability assessments, forecasting concurrent user and workload growth, defining scaling strategies, and proactively allocating resources during peak demand.
Support user onboarding and enablement efforts, including onboarding processes for new users and teams, training coordination, workspace access provisioning, and development of self-service documentation and guides.