Position Details:
Title: Appian System Admin
Client: Financial Services
Location: Mclean, VA
Duration: 5-6 months
Shift Timings: Basic Business Hours
Pay Range: $50 - $60/hr
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, (paid time , paid sick and safe time , hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, paid holidays annually - AS Applicable)

• We are seeking an 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 ideal candidate has 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.

• 5+ 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 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 (secret manager), Appian operator/CRD.
• CloudFormation Templates, Terraform