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Job Summary:
Spark Tek Inc is seeking a Cloud/Platform/Systems Specialist for their Service Delivery Public Safety IT Team. The role involves leading infrastructure initiatives to modernize IT operations and providing support for hybrid-cloud administrative practices to enhance efficiency and reliability.
Responsibilities:
• Support senior resources in the Service Delivery Public Safety IT Team.
• Lead infrastructure initiatives to modernize IT infrastructure and operations to enhance efficiency, scalability, and reliability across hybrid cloud environments.
• Provide support for modern approaches to hybrid-cloud administrative and engineering practices to eliminate expensive and inefficient legacy solutions, while improving operational efficiency, reducing manual intervention, and enabling scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Designs, maintains, and optimizes hybrid platforms that bridge on‐premises infrastructure with AWS cloud services, aligning with the shift toward cloud‐centric operations.
• Designing and administering AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise workloads.
• Creating hybrid workload patterns where identity, authentication, and application services function seamlessly across cloud and on‐premises systems.
• Migrating legacy systems to AWS, including developing modernization roadmaps and workload readiness assessments.
• Documenting system architectures and producing AWS architecture diagrams showing network topology, dependencies, and service interactions.
• Provides senior‐tier support for issues escalated from Service Desk, Applications, Networking, or automation teams.
• Diagnosing complex AWS identity, network, or compute issues affecting dependent applications.
• Documenting troubleshooting workflows, root causes, and long‐term mitigation strategies.
• Guiding teams through hybrid dependency failures such as directory sync disruptions, routing conflicts, or misconfigured IAM policies.
• Ensures platform resilience by monitoring, optimizing, and maintaining cloud and on‐prem compute, storage, networking, and identity components.
• Eliminate single points of failure in designs patterns.
• Provide backup, recovery, and DR to meet all RTO/RPO requirements.
• Implementing performance dashboards covering compute utilization, storage I/O, and network throughput across AWS and on‐prem.
• Conducting root‐cause analysis for performance issues and documenting remediation steps.
• Identifying cost optimization opportunities through instance rightsizing, storage tier adjustments, and lifecycle automation.
• Maintaining architecture diagrams, standards, IaC manifests, and operational procedures in version‐controlled environments.
• Preparing change impact statements for major infrastructure modifications.
• Creating release documentation for platform updates promoted through CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensuring consistency across platform standards, enforcement rules, and automation artifacts.
• Works closely with automation specialist and other team members to ensure infrastructure deployments follow consistent, automated, and auditable patterns.
• Defining IaC patterns and collaborating on Terraform module designs.
• Documenting provisioning workflows, configuration standards, and parameter usage for automated deployments.
• Supporting CI/CD infrastructure pipelines that promote test, staging, and production environments through automated checks.
• Collaborate with engineering and application teams to optimize workloads for hybrid cloud environments.
• Provide guidance on migration strategies, performance tuning, and cost optimization for hybrid-cloud deployments.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for hybrid cloud architecture, operational procedures, and automation workflows.
• Ensure documentation supports knowledge transfer and compliance audits.
• Supports organizational security and compliance goals by implementing and documenting platform controls across cloud and on‐prem environments.
• Enforcing AWS guardrails such as encryption, MFA, IAM role boundaries, and network segmentation.
• Producing audit evidence packages (configuration exports, pipeline logs, screenshots).
• Documenting platform hardening guidelines for compute, identity, and storage systems.
• Creating policy interpretation guides to clarify required platform configurations for other technical teams.
• Writing operational guides, onboarding materials, and 'how‐to' documentation for AWS and hybrid operations.
• Delivering platform standards, architecture reference materials, and annotated diagrams explaining system interactions.
• Producing executive‐level briefings summarizing modernization progress and platform initiatives.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5 or more years of experience required in designing and administering AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise workloads.
• Experience with creating hybrid workload patterns where identity, authentication, and application services function seamlessly across cloud and on‐premises systems.
• Experience with migrating legacy systems to AWS, including developing modernization roadmaps and workload readiness assessments.
• Experience with documenting system architectures and producing AWS architecture diagrams showing network topology, dependencies, and service interactions.
• Experience providing senior‐tier support for issues escalated from Service Desk, Applications, Networking, or automation teams.
• Experience diagnosing complex AWS identity, network, or compute issues affecting dependent applications.
• Experience documenting troubleshooting workflows, root causes, and long‐term mitigation strategies.
• Experience guiding teams through hybrid dependency failures such as directory sync disruptions, routing conflicts, or misconfigured IAM policies.
• Experience ensuring platform resilience by monitoring, optimizing, and maintaining cloud and on‐prem compute, storage, networking, and identity components.
• Experience eliminating single points of failure in designs patterns.
• Experience providing backup, recovery, and DR to meet all RTO/RPO requirements.
• Experience implementing performance dashboards covering compute utilization, storage I/O, and network throughput across AWS and on‐prem.
• Experience conducting root‐cause analysis for performance issues and documenting remediation steps.
• Experience identifying cost optimization opportunities through instance rightsizing, storage tier adjustments, and lifecycle automation.
• Experience maintaining architecture diagrams, standards, IaC manifests, and operational procedures in version‐controlled environments.
• Experience preparing change impact statements for major infrastructure modifications.
• Experience creating release documentation for platform updates promoted through CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience defining IaC patterns and collaborating on Terraform module designs.
• Experience documenting provisioning workflows, configuration standards, and parameter usage for automated deployments.
• Experience supporting CI/CD infrastructure pipelines that promote test, staging, and production environments through automated checks.
• Experience collaborating with engineering and application teams to optimize workloads for hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience providing guidance on migration strategies, performance tuning, and cost optimization for hybrid-cloud deployments.
• Experience maintaining comprehensive documentation for hybrid cloud architecture, operational procedures, and automation workflows.
• Experience supporting organizational security and compliance goals by implementing and documenting platform controls across cloud and on‐prem environments.
• Experience enforcing AWS guardrails such as encryption, MFA, IAM role boundaries, and network segmentation.
• Experience producing audit evidence packages (configuration exports, pipeline logs, screenshots).
• Experience documenting platform hardening guidelines for compute, identity, and storage systems.
• Experience creating policy interpretation guides to clarify required platform configurations for other technical teams.
• Experience writing operational guides, onboarding materials, and 'how‐to' documentation for AWS and hybrid operations.
• Experience delivering platform standards, architecture reference materials, and annotated diagrams explaining system interactions.
• Experience producing executive‐level briefings summarizing modernization progress and platform initiatives.
Preferred:
• Experience with Ansible would be handy.
• Experience related to AWS IAM functionality for controlling RBAC is needed.
• FIN OPS - strong understanding on how to estimate costs and delivery quickly needed.
Company:
Spark Tek Inc offers IT solutions and consultancy services, specializing in IT services and consulting for various industries. Founded in 2021, the company is headquartered in Farmers Branch, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.