Day to Day activity's of AWS Admin

1. Administrating AWS platform services - create, delete, update aws services as per the requests from Dev team.
2. IAM - create, delete, update users and their permissions.
3. Support - Giving support to Dev team in case any optimisation/troubleshooting going on for performance of application.
4. On call/3rd line support - Provide 24x7 support to AWS infrastructure.
5. Design - Involve in design and development of infrastructure architecture which hosts the applications.
6. Failover and Backup - Write cloud-formation templates and back scripts/jobs to take time backup of data and infrastructure.
7. Automation and DevOps - Doing lot of automation for the tasks which are done manually and keep updating them. Working on CI-CD pipelines to provide quick releases.
8. Setup continuous build environment with Jenkins to speed up deployments.
9. Creating Cloud based infrastructure required by the Software team, most of these days they create the infrastructure within secure VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) within AWS.
10. Creating and maintaining scripts to spin up and spin down instances required for application on demand.
11. Maintaining all the company followed security compliance like passwords, key rotation policies.
12. Create various types of alerts(also refer as Pager Duty alerts) that monitor systems health and report any issues if they occur and when they happen SysOps team jump on the issues and resolve them by themselves or at least escalate to the right person.
13. Cost savings/ Cost Optimization is huge part of their activities. They tag and monitor the running instances and anything that is not required to run they not only need to shut them down but also find the root cause why they were not terminated properly in the first place (process issue or software issue).
14. At last but not the least, work with DEV/STE team to deploy newer version of software in Cloud.
15. Maintaining a backup of the resources is another important responsibility. The administrator has to perform AWS on-premise resources backup from time to time by making extensive use of AWS services
16. Managed different AWS Accounts for IAM Users and Implemented Switch Role between them.
17. Working experience on Linux live and non-live servers to provide and remove the access and privileges to user.