AWS Systems Administrator

Position Summary:

UDRI is seeking an experienced AWS Systems Administrator & Cloud Developer to design, deploy, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure supporting UDRI’s research mission. This role focuses on AWS cloud engineering, automation, DevOps workflows, and application hosting across secure federal environments.

The ideal candidate is a builder who specializes in cloud-native solutions, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and secure development within a regulated research environment.
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Key Responsibilities
• Architect, deploy, and manage AWS environments, including IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, compliance monitoring, and application deployments (IaC, CI/CD).
• Integrate AWS systems with identity platforms such as IAM Identity Center (formerly SSO).
• Support development teams with cloud architectures, container services, serverless patterns, and modern DevOps approaches.
• Develop scripts, automations, and cloud workflows using tools such as Python, PowerShell, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, cloud security baselines, runbooks, and lifecycle plans.
• Ensure AWS implementations align with NIST SP 800-171, CMMC Level 2, and federal cybersecurity standards.
• Conduct performance optimization, cost modeling, and right-sizing cloud environments.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert for Tier 3 cloud issues, troubleshooting, modernization, and workload migrations.
• Evaluate new cloud technologies and recommend solutions to enhance capability, automation, and resiliency.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field and three years of experience.
• Security+ certification or the ability to obtain within first six months of employment.
• Experience architecting and administering AWS cloud environments.
• Experience with cloud automation tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, scripting).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, and secure workload design.
• Experience supporting compliance frameworks such as NIST SP 800-171, FedRAMP, or CMMC.
• Strong documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Due to the requirements of our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be a U.S. person (i.e., a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee) and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.
• Valid driver’s license with low-risk driving record.

Preferred Qualifications:

While not everyone may possess all of the preferred qualifications, the ideal candidate will bring many of the following:

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps, Developer).
• Experience with hybrid cloud integrations, application modernization, or container platforms (ECS, EKS, Docker).
• Experience supporting DevOps or cloud development teams in a research or federal environment.
• Automation and development experience with Python or similar languages.