Job Listing Information

Cloud/Platform/Systems Specialist
  • 15-Apr-2026 to 29-Apr-2026 (UTC)
  • Des Moines, IA, USA
  • Full Time
  • Long Term Contract Length
  • 40 Weekly Hours

Complete Description:: 

- 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.

- The Service Delivery Public Safety IT Team is seeking a candidate for a critical cloud/platform/systems specialist to Support senior resources.

- Expectations include Leading infrastructure initiatives to modernize IT infrastructure and operations to enhance efficiency, scalability, and reliability across hybrid cloud environments.

- This role supports enterprise modernization goals by providing 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.

 

Fill the skill matrix below:

Skill

Required/Desired

Amount

Candidate's No. of years of experience

Designing and administering AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise workloads.

Required

5

 

Creating hybrid workload patterns where identity, authentication, and application services function seamlessly across cloud and on premises systems.

Required

5

 

Migrating legacy systems to AWS, including developing modernization roadmaps and workload readiness assessments.

Required

5

 

Documenting system architectures and producing AWS architecture diagrams showing network topology, dependencies, and service interactions.

Required

5

 

Diagnosing complex AWS identity, network, or compute issues affecting dependent applications.

Required

5

 

Guiding teams through hybrid dependency failures such as directory sync disruptions, routing conflicts, or misconfigured IAM policies.

Required

5

 

Documenting troubleshooting workflows, root causes, and long term mitigation strategies.

Required

5

 

Eliminate single points of failure in designs patterns

Required

5

 

Provide backup, recovery, and DR to meet all RTO/RPO requirements.

Required

5

 

Implementing performance dashboards covering compute utilization, storage I/O, and network throughput across AWS and on prem.

Required

5

 

Conducting root cause analysis for performance issues and documenting remediation steps.

Required

5

 

Identifying cost optimization opportunities through instance rightsizing, storage tier adjustments, and lifecycle automation.

Required

5

 

Maintaining architecture diagrams, standards, IaC manifests, and operational procedures in version-controlled environments.

Required

5

 

Preparing change impact statements for major infrastructure modifications.

Required

5

 

Creating release documentation for platform updates promoted through CI/CD pipelines. Ensuring consistency across platform standards, enforcement

Required

5

 

rules, and automation artifacts.

Required

 

 

Defining IaC patterns and collaborating on Terraform module designs.

Required

5

 

Documenting provisioning workflows, configuration standards, and parameter usage for automated deployments.

Required

5

 

Supporting CI/CD infrastructure pipelines that promote test, staging, and production environments through automated checks.

Required

5

 

Collaborate with engineering and application teams to optimize workloads for hybrid cloud environments.

Required

5

 

Provide guidance on migration strategies, performance tuning, and cost optimization for hybrid-cloud deployments.

Required

5

 

Enforcing AWS guardrails such as encryption, MFA, IAM role boundaries, and network segmentation.

Required

5

 

Producing audit evidence packages (configuration exports, pipeline logs, screenshots).

Required

5

 

Documenting platform hardening guidelines for compute, identity, and storage systems.

Required

5

 

Creating policy interpretation guides to clarify required platform configurations for other technical teams.

Required

5

 

Writing operational guides, onboarding materials, and “how to” documentation for AWS and hybrid operations.

Required

5

 

Delivering platform standards, architecture reference materials, and annotated diagrams explaining system interactions.

Required

5

 

Delivering platform standards, architecture reference materials, and annotated diagrams explaining system interactions.

Required

5