Sr. Cloud Administrator

AEM (Advanced Environmental Monitoring) is the global leader in innovative mission critical weather wildfire and water monitoring and intelligence solutions. We aim to be the worlds essential source for environmental insights enabling decisive action and positive outcomes for our customers and their constituents. Our family of innovators offers world-class hydrometeorological technologies and services including sensors dataloggers telemetry and advanced analytics and software. Our technology and services empower the communities and organizations to survive and thrive in the face of escalating environmental risks.

AEM is looking for a highly motivated Sr. Cloud Administrator to support our cloud-based infrastructure. We gather and analyze environmental observations from around the world to help promote a better understanding of the planet and its atmosphere. The company operates the worlds largest network of weather sensors and precise greenhouse gas data measurements. The company builds enterprise data services and information applications for enterprise and government customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design deploy and manage scalable secure and highly available cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS Azure)
• Monitor system performance troubleshoot issues and ensure uptime and reliability
• Evaluate and prioritize cloud infrastructure requests from multiple business units by assessing technical complexity and business value
• Ensure cloud infrastructure and operations comply with relevant regulatory frameworks (e.g. SOC 2 ISO 27001 GDPR) and internal security policies
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions Azure DevOps or Jenkins to streamline application delivery and infrastructure provisioning through automation and best practices.
• Create maintain and improve our Infrastructure as Code use via Terraform
• Own the creation and upkeep of technical documentation that empowers the support team to resolve incidents quickly and accurately
• Manage discover and drive cloud cost optimization strategies
• Provide off-hours support for critical infrastructure issues on an as-needed basis ensuring timely resolution of incidents
• Oversee and manage application deployments ensuring timely and reliable releases to staging and production environments.
• Develop and document standard operating procedures deployment processes and troubleshooting guides.
• Define and maintain infrastructure reference architectures standards and reusable building blocks (patterns/playbooks) that teams and partners must adopt.
• Collaborate closely with external Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to oversee cloud operations ensure service delivery expectations are met validate technical recommendations and align managed services with business and security objectives.
• Assess recommend and implement emerging cloud-native AI services and integration opportunities that support innovation operational excellence and business transformation.
• Explore and implement AI-driven monitoring automated defect triage and operational efficiency tooling

• 5 years of progressively responsible hands-on operations experience utilizing Amazon Web Services Cloud infrastructure and cloud services.
• Technical experience required:
  • Linux and Windows Server OS management and maintenance
  • instance and container build processes and their tools; Packer Docker EC2 Image Builder
  • AWS services such as EC2 S3 IAM CodeDeploy CloudWatch Fargate/ECS Lambda VPC ALB CloudFront MSK SQS SNS CloudFormation
  • CI/CD support utilizing Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins
  • Experience with IIS (Internet Information Services) Active and other applications in the Windows ecosystem
  • Basic SQL administration and management capability of database technologies (RDS Aurora DynamoDB)
  • Experience managing networking routing firewalls load balancing etc in an hybrid environment
• Jira and other Atlassian product experience a plus
• Strong automation and configuration management experience
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate level or similar preferred
• Ability to interact with teams in a professional ar
• Communicates effectively with both technical staff and senior leadership
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Able to learn and adapt to recent technologies through self-directed training

Preferred Experience:

• Amazon architecture design
• Support for customer facing services including API SaaS (Software as a Service) and DaaS (Data as a Service) support
• Implementing advanced monitoring tools focused on monitoring cloud-based systems

Additional Information:

• This is a remote opportunity that can be done from anywhere in the continental United States and/or Canada
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. or Canada without company sponsorship now or in the future for employment-based work authorization. F-1 visa holders with Optional Practical Training (OPT) who will require H-1B status TNs or current H-1B visa holders will not be considered. H1-B and green card sponsorship is not available for this position.

US Benefits include: Medical Dental Vision Life Insurance Short-Term & Long-Term Disability & 401k match of up to 3%.

US Compensation Range: A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this position is $110000 - $150000 per year. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. AEM considers a wide range of factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position candidates work experience education licensure and certifications key skills as well as other market and business considerations when extending an offer. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled.

This position will accept applications on an ongoing basis and will be closed once the position is filled.

AEM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age pregnancy genetic information disability status as a protected veteran or any other protected category under applicable federal state and local laws.