Cloud/Platform/Systems Specialist

Des Moines, IA, US • Posted 12 hours ago • Updated 57 minutes ago

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Role- Cloud/Platform/Systems Specialist

Location -Des Moines, IA 50309

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Designed and administered AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise workloads.
Created hybrid workload architectures enabling seamless identity, authentication, and application services across cloud and on-premises systems.
Led migration of legacy systems to AWS, including modernization roadmaps and workload readiness assessments.
Documented system architectures and developed AWS diagrams showing network topology, dependencies, and service interactions.
Diagnosed and resolved complex AWS identity, networking, and compute-related issues impacting applications.
Guided teams through hybrid dependency failures such as directory sync issues, routing conflicts, and IAM misconfigurations.
Documented troubleshooting processes, root cause analyses, and long-term mitigation strategies.
Eliminated single points of failure through resilient architecture design patterns.
Implemented backup, disaster recovery (DR), and high availability solutions to meet RTO/RPO requirements.
Developed performance dashboards tracking compute utilization, storage I/O, and network throughput across AWS and on-prem environments.
Conducted root cause analysis for performance issues and documented remediation steps.
Identified and implemented cost optimization strategies including instance rightsizing, storage tiering, and lifecycle automation.
Maintained architecture diagrams, standards, IaC templates, and operational procedures in version-controlled environments.
Prepared change impact assessments for major infrastructure updates.
Created release documentation for platform updates deployed through CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistency with platform standards and automation rules.
Defined Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards and collaborated on Terraform module development.
Documented provisioning workflows, configuration standards, and parameter usage for automated deployments.
Supported CI/CD pipelines promoting code across development, staging, and production environments with automated validations.
Collaborated with engineering and application teams to optimize workloads for hybrid cloud environments.
Provided guidance on migration strategies, performance tuning, and cost optimization for hybrid cloud deployments.
Enforced AWS security best practices including encryption, MFA, IAM role boundaries, and network segmentation.
Produced audit evidence such as configuration exports, pipeline logs, and system documentation.
Documented platform hardening guidelines for compute, identity, and storage systems.
Created policy interpretation guides to standardize platform configurations across teams.
Developed operational guides, onboarding documentation, and "how-to" manuals for AWS and hybrid environments.
Delivered platform standards, architecture references, and annotated diagrams explaining system interactions.

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Position Id: 2026-18463
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Title: Cloud Platform Systems Specialist - Onsite Mandatory skills: AWS environments, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, enterprise workloads, hybrid workload patterns, identity, authentication, application services function, cloud, on premises systems, Migrating legacy systems, modernization roadmaps, workload readiness assessments, Documenting system architectures, producing AWS architecture diagrams, network topology, dependencies, service interactions, AWS identity, network, compute issues, hybrid dependen

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