Senior Systems Administrator / Appian Admin

Senior Systems Administrator / Appian for our mortgage services client in McLean, VA REMOTE ROLE . This is a 5-month contract with a probable extension
Summary and responsibilities:
Experienced Appian Administrator to support and lead the migration of Appian applications from an on-prem Linux environment to AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). Hands-on experience administering Appian environments, managing deployments, and working closely with DevOps and cloud engineering teams to design, implement, and stabilize containerized Appian solution in AWS.

• Manage, configure, and maintain multiple Appian environments (on-prem and cloud)
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security and DevOps teams to plan and execute migration from on-prem to AWS EKS
• Set up and manage Appian Docker containers and Helm configurations.
• Oversee installation, patching, upgrades and hotfixes of Appian versions.
• Coordinate database migrations (e.g., DB2 to PostgreSQL)
• Ensure application and plugin compatibility post-migration
• Work with InfoSec for image scanning, vulnerability remediation, and compliance approvals.
• Support performance tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting across environments.
• Create and maintain detailed runbooks, SOPs, and architecture documentation.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as an Appian Administrator (versions 21.x or later)
• Proven experience migrating Appian from on-prem to containerized/cloud environments (preferably AWS EKS)
• Strong understanding of Linux administration, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and AWS services (ECR, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Experience in integrating Appian with enterprise services (LDAP, SSO, SMTP, database, secrets management)
• Kubernetes pods, Webhooks/Controllers
• Familiarity with Appian automation, deployment pipelines (CI/CD), and plugin management.
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
• Experience working with EFS, ASM (Amazon secret manager), Appian operator/CRD.
• CloudFormation Templates, Terraform

Preferred skills:

• Experience in financial services or regulated environments
• Exposure to Hashicorp Vault or CyberArk, Elastic for secrets management
• Familiarity with Goldfield/Private cloud environments or large enterprise cloud migration projects
• Appian administration or DevOps certification is a plus.