AWS Administrator Senior at TotalEnergies

Job Description

As a Senior AWS Administrator, you would be responsible for the following: 

Cloud infrastructure Strategy:

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure and services to meet organizational requirements.
• Ensure security and compliance of the AWS environment, including implementing security best practices, monitoring and auditing, and maintaining compliance certifications.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to AWS infrastructure and services, including network connectivity, storage, and compute resources.
• Create and maintain documentation for AWS architecture, design, and operations.
• Automate routine tasks using scripting and other tools, and implement DevOps best practices.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure that the AWS environment meets application requirements.

Functional Expertise:

• Provide functional expertise and guidance around leveraging the capabilities of cloud platforms to business stakeholders.
• Act as liaison between business key users and the IT Department - for investigating, analyzing, and implementing cloud-based solutions (including documenting, data mapping, analytical processing and source system modifications).

Solution Development:

• Assist in the development of end-to-end solutions for new and existing digital projects.
• Run proof of concepts and investigate opportunities for use of innovative cloud solutions.

Solution Support:

• Support incident resolution on productionised digital solutions.
• Responsible for ensuring the production services are optimally configured and aligned to best practices to protect production data.
• Support the development of automated data pipelines and  in conjunction with business stakeholders and IT teams.
• Work in close collaboration with IT to define and develop the industrialised digital support process which will be managed and administered by IT.

Context and environment

• Internally, the job holder has interfaces with all departments in the affiliate, TotalEnergies Global Service IT Services, (TGITS) and Information Services (IS) contacts.
• Externally, the job holder is responsible for representing the company with vendors and suppliers and amongst industry peers.
• The job holder manages the full software lifecycle: Business analysis and consultancy, application development, implementation and support, project management and translate business requirements/processes into structured, supportable solutions. It is the job-holders responsibility to ensure that resources are deployed in the manner that satisfies user requirements within given SLA and budgetary constraints.

Candidate profile

Ideally, a Senior AWS Administrator would possess the following: 
Required:

• A numerate Honors degree (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering).
• Ability to develop technical solutions and functional specifications based on business requirements.
• Knowledge of leading technologies including:
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• Experience with AWS infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, Gitub.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, etc.
• Understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, and VPN
• Good understanding of working with relational databases, including database administration.
• Proven production experience and best practice knowledge of cloud platforms, features, and capabilities (AWS components)
• Experience integrating cloud services to securely work with on premise data sources.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication skills, written and verbal combined with effective technical presentation skills.
• Organized, methodical and able to multi-task whilst working under tight deadlines

Preferred:

• A thorough understanding of the Dowstream industry and knowledge of Downstream companies' main strategic drivers.
• Knowledge of multi-tier, high availability, cloud and on-premises data engineering solutions in a complex multi-site enterprise environment.
• Experience of working within a dynamic Agile based team.
• English language proficiency