Senior IT Systems Administrator- AWS System Operations

Requisition ID:  36045 

NextEra Analytics is the optimization and analytics team for the world’s largest renewable energy generator. We thrive on solving the toughest problems facing the energy industry and creating innovative forecasting and optimization solutions that lead the way into the next era of energy.

Position Specific Description

NextEra Analytics is looking for an experienced senior system administrator to join our growing team of high performing IT, software engineering and data science professionals.  Qualified candidates will have a verifiable record showing multiple years of success building and maintaining cloud-based solutions in a product development environment.  Experience helping development teams build and deploy applications in public cloud and supporting production applications or workloads in a cloud-based environment is essential.  Primary responsibilities will include administering, supporting and troubleshooting NextEra Analytics custom cloud-based and on-premise solutions.  This position also includes responsibility for the design, implementation, support and management of the NextEra Analytics’ enterprise infrastructure (both physical and virtual environments).

The desired qualifications specific to this position include:

•    5+ years of system administration experience
•    2+ years of experience working in AWS platform, including:
o    proficiency in administration of EC2, S3, Auto Scaling, and IAM policies
o    Ability to select the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements.
o    Estimate AWS usage costs and identify operational cost control mechanisms.
o    Evaluating, recommending, and implementing enhancements to the current architectural and AWS services
o    Understanding of AWS network, security and encryption technologies (e.g., advanced VPC concepts)
o    Strong troubleshooting skills (e.g., solid understanding of CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail)
•    Experience with infrastructure/configuration/orchestration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, CloudFormation)
•    Experience with container technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS)
•    Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code and related concepts on public cloud
•    Ability to code/script in languages commonly used by system administrators or DevOps team members (e.g., Python, PowerShell, bash)
•    Experience with on-premise and cloud-based databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra,  DynamoDB
•    Experience with GIT version control system

Employee Group:  Exempt
Employee Type:  Full Time
Job Category:  Information Technology
Organization:  NextEra Analytics Inc 
Location:  St. Paul, Minnesota 
Other Work Locations:  Minnesota 
Relocation Provided:  Yes, if applicable

NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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