Web and Application Administrator

Job description

Introduction
The infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare is quickly changing as the world’s relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Specialists are responsible for keeping up with these latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.

Your Role and Responsibilities
This position is for a Web and Application Administrator supporting the ALTESS commercial cloud customers who reside in Microsoft Azure (Gov/DoD). ALTESS is a managed service provider (MSP) for Army IT systems and we support enterprise applications owners in migrating their systems into Microsoft Azure and also provide sustainment services to support their applications. This Web and Application Administrator position will provide a full suite of web and application administration capabilities to ALTESS cloud customers.

JOB DUTIES:
Serve as a Web and Application subject matter expert (SME) for evaluating customer's current application architecture and develop a new architecture to be deployed in Azure and utilizing cloud native database services as much as possible (PaaS vs IaaS).
• Collaborate with internal and external parties to transform high-level technical objectives into comprehensive technical requirements.
• Build and deploy web and application infrastructure for customer applications
• Provide sustainment of customer web and application tier systems to include installation configuration patching upgrades hardening of systems per STIG guidance and industry best practices and SSL certificate management.
• Work closely with customer developers for regular project releases and code deployments.
• Provide troubleshooting assistance for any reported issues.
• Assist with identifying and planning potential new cloud services features and capabilities.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security scalability manageability and performance across a wide variety of network storage compute and mid-tier technologies.

Location 100% remote

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Security Clearance:DOD Secret or higher required
·  Required Certifications: Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. MCSA - SQL Server etc.)
·  Mid to senior level SQL web and application tier administration experience utilizing mid-tier tools such as IIS Apache Nginx Tomcat or JBOSS
• Basic system administration knowledge of Linux and Windows Server operating systems
• Experience with Gitlab Azure DevOps Server or similar
• Experience building CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience automating routine administrative tasks desired
• Understanding of network storage server and application technologies

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Familiarity with Kubernetes Containers is desired