Senior AWS Systems Administrator

Job Title: Senior AWS Systems Administrator

Key Skills: AWS, IAM, VPC, Route 53, Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, Linux, Infrastructure as Code, Networking, CloudWatch

Experience: +7 YOE.

Location: Costa Rica

Mode: Remote.

We at Coforge are hiring Senior AWS Systems Administrator (#21560) with the following skill set.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, optimize, and maintain AWS infrastructure in production environments, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and high availability for enterprise systems.
• Design and support networking architectures including VPCs, Transit Gateway, VPNs, hybrid connectivity, DNS routing, failover strategies, and secure cloud communications.
• Administer identity and access management processes, including IAM, SSO, role-based access, federation, and least-privilege security models for HIPAA/PHI-sensitive environments.
• Monitor infrastructure health, support incident response and on-call operations, implement observability best practices, and contribute to Infrastructure as Code and operational automation initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical infrastructure engineering experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on AWS administration experience in production environments with ownership of technical decisions and operational outcomes.
• Strong expertise in AWS networking, including VPC, Transit Gateway, VPNs, hybrid connectivity, Route 53, DNS routing, health checks, and failover strategies.
• Experience managing HIPAA/PHI-sensitive workloads and secure healthcare or regulated cloud environments.
• Strong hands-on experience administering Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS, including scaling, backups, failover, outage recovery, and performance optimization.
• Expert-level knowledge of IAM, identity federation, SSO, RBAC, least-privilege access, and cloud security best practices.
• Strong Linux administration experience and deep networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, IPsec, and secure connectivity models.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar automation frameworks.
• Strong monitoring and observability experience using CloudWatch, logging, alerting, and incident troubleshooting workflows.
• Experience with on-call operations, incident response, operational troubleshooting, and daily use of AI tools (e.g., Claude or similar) for operational workflows and productivity.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong English communication skills for global collaboration.
• Experience supporting healthcare, EHR/EMR, or PHI-regulated environments.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as HITRUST, SOC2, ONC, or security audits.
• Experience with AWS Direct Connect, multi-account AWS organizations (Control Tower, SCPs), VPN tools (Tailscale, NordLayer), disaster recovery planning, and scripting using Python, Bash, or TypeScript.

Posted On: 20-05-2026

At Coforge, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.