Senior Systems Administrator / Appian
Posted 1 week ago by 1764671477
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: Experienced Appian Administrator to support and lead the migration of Appian applications from an on-prem Linux environment to AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). The role requires hands-on experience administering Appian environments, managing deployments, and collaborating with DevOps and cloud engineering teams to design, implement, and stabilize containerized Appian solutions in AWS.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage, configure, and maintain multiple Appian environments (on-prem and cloud)
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security and DevOps teams to plan and execute migration from on-prem to AWS EKS
- Set up and manage Appian Docker containers and Helm configurations.
- Oversee installation, patching, upgrades and hotfixes of Appian versions.
- Coordinate database migrations (e.g., DB2 to PostgreSQL)
- Ensure application and plugin compatibility post-migration
- Work with InfoSec for image scanning, vulnerability remediation, and compliance approvals.
- Support performance tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting across environments.
- Create and maintain detailed runbooks, SOPs, and architecture documentation.
Key Skills:
- 7+ years of experience as an Appian Administrator (versions 21.x or later)
- Proven experience migrating Appian from on-prem to containerized/cloud environments (preferably AWS EKS)
- Strong understanding of Linux administration, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and AWS services (ECR, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
- Experience in integrating Appian with enterprise services (LDAP, SSO, SMTP, database, secrets management)
- Kubernetes pods, Webhooks/Controllers
- Familiarity with Appian automation, deployment pipelines (CI/CD), and plugin management.
- Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
- Experience working with EFS, ASM (Amazon secret manager), Appian operator/CRD.
- CloudFormation Templates, Terraform
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Summary and responsibilities:
Experienced Appian Administrator to support and lead the migration of Appian applications from an on-prem Linux environment to AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). Hands-on experience administering Appian environments, managing deployments, and working closely with DevOps and cloud engineering teams to design, implement, and stabilize containerized Appian solution in AWS.
- Manage, configure, and maintain multiple Appian environments (on-prem and cloud)
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security and DevOps teams to plan and execute migration from on-prem to AWS EKS
- Set up and manage Appian Docker containers and Helm configurations.
- Oversee installation, patching, upgrades and hotfixes of Appian versions.
- Coordinate database migrations (e.g., DB2 to PostgreSQL)
- Ensure application and plugin compatibility post-migration
- Work with InfoSec for image scanning, vulnerability remediation, and compliance approvals.
- Support performance tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting across environments.
- Create and maintain detailed runbooks, SOPs, and architecture documentation.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience as an Appian Administrator (versions 21.x or later)
- Proven experience migrating Appian from on-prem to containerized/cloud environments (preferably AWS EKS)
- Strong understanding of Linux administration, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and AWS services (ECR, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
- Experience in integrating Appian with enterprise services (LDAP, SSO, SMTP, database, secrets management)
- Kubernetes pods, Webhooks/Controllers
- Familiarity with Appian automation, deployment pipelines (CI/CD), and plugin management.
- Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
- Experience working with EFS, ASM (Amazon secret manager), Appian operator/CRD.
- CloudFormation Templates, Terraform
Preferred skills:
- Experience in financial services or regulated environments
- Exposure to Hashicorp Vault or CyberArk, Elastic for secrets management
- Familiarity with Goldfield/Private cloud environments or large enterprise cloud migration projects
- Appian administration or DevOps certification is a plus.