Build developer-facing tooling, internal APIs, and self-service capabilities that improve delivery velocity.
Administer Windows Server, including performance tuning and root cause analysis.
Administer Active Directory, including AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, certificate services, and integration with AWS Managed Microsoft AD.
Administer Microsoft SQL Server on EC2 and RDS, including backup/recovery, high availability, and performance tuning.
Support migration of Windows and SQL Server workloads from on premises to AWS.
Monitor system health using Datadog and CloudWatch; drive incident response, runbooks, and reliability improvements.
Serve as an escalation point for complex incidents and lead root cause analysis.
Maintain backup/DR configurations and participate in restore testing.
Perform capacity planning, cost optimization, and resource tagging.
Develop technical documentation and mentor junior engineers.
Apply AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, AWS Kiro) to accelerate IaC development and troubleshooting.
Required Qualifications
Bachelors and 4+ years of relevant IT experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience independently owning cloud infrastructure design and setting technical direction on complex initiatives.
Experience translating customer/stakeholder requirements into implemented technical solutions.
Hands-on AWS experience across compute, storage, networking, database, IAM, backup, and monitoring services.
Experience with Terraform (or CloudFormation/CDK) for infrastructure as code.
Strong software development background — able to build automation tools, internal services, or lightweight applications, not just administrative scripts.
Strong PowerShell skills with working proficiency in Python.
Deep Windows Server engineering experience, including root cause analysis of complex issues.
Experience administering Active Directory (AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, certificate services, enterprise authentication).
Experience administering SQL Server, including backup/recovery, HA, and RDS administration.
