Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – Lift & Shift Migration

About the role

This role is focused squarely on lift-and-shift migration — re-hosting existing applications, storage, and file transfer processes onto AWS infrastructure with minimal re-architecture, while establishing the content delivery, storage, and secure transfer patterns the environment will run on going forward.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute lift-and-shift migration of on-premises servers, applications, and workloads to AWS
• Design and implement content delivery using Amazon CloudFront and storage architecture using Amazon S3
• Stand up and manage secure file transfer workflows using AWS Transfer Family (SFTP/FTPS/FTP)
• Containerize legacy applications with Docker to prepare them for cloud-hosted environments
• Assess on-prem workloads and dependencies to build migration runbooks, wave plans, and cutover strategies
• Configure supporting AWS infrastructure — networking, compute, security groups, and IAM — for migrated workloads
• Validate post-migration performance, cost, and security posture, and remediate issues found during cutover
• Document migration architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures for the environment

Requirements

• Amazon CloudFront Hands-on experience designing and configuring CloudFront distributions for web content and application delivery
• Experience with origin configuration, caching behaviors, and invalidations
• Understands signed URLs/cookies and integration with WAF for edge security
• AWS S3 Experience designing S3 bucket architecture, storage classes, and lifecycle policies
• Understands S3 security — bucket policies, IAM access, encryption at rest, and versioning
• Experience migrating on-prem file storage and data to S3
• AWS Transfer Family Hands-on experience standing up and managing AWS Transfer Family endpoints (SFTP/FTPS/FTP)
• Experience integrating Transfer Family with S3 or EFS as backend storage
• Understands user/identity management and access controls for managed file transfer
• Docker Hands-on experience containerizing applications with Docker, including writing and optimizing Dockerfiles
• Comfortable running and troubleshooting containerized workloads in a cloud environment
• Lift & Shift Migration Experience
• Has led or been a core contributor to at least one on-premises to AWS migration project
• Experience with migration assessment, wave planning, and cutover execution
• Comfortable working with legacy infrastructure and minimizing risk during transition

Qualifications

• Familiarity with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS DMS, or AWS DataSync
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or Terraform)
• Exposure to hybrid connectivity (Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN)

Skills

• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS S3
• AWS Transfer Family
• Docker
• EC2, VPC, ELB/ALB, Route 53, Direct Connect/VPN
• AWS IAM, KMS, Security Groups, NACLs, WAF
• AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS DMS, AWS DataSync
• CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager

Benefits

Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits. Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines. Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico. Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching. Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance. Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).