Cloud Engineer

We are seeking an experienced
Senior AWS Migrations Engineer
to work alongside
AWS Professional Services (ProServe)
teams on a major enterprise-wide initiative to migrate and modernize a complex portfolio of legacy on-premises applications to AWS for a leading financial services institution.

This is a highly technical, hands-on position in which you will work directly with application development teams as a dedicated
cloud architecture advisor and migration engineer
, providing end-to-end guidance on transitioning complex, high-throughput financial applications and databases to AWS.

The ideal candidate brings
10+ years of technical experience
, extensive hands-on AWS migration expertise, strong cloud architecture skills, and advanced proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS CDK, and cloud automation.

Role Details

• Client:
  AWS Professional Services (ProServe), supporting large enterprise customers, primarily in financial services
• Employment Type:
  Full-time, permanent position (not contract; C2C and subcontracting arrangements are not considered)
• Location:
  100% Remote – United States
• Work Authorization:
  U.S. citizens or Green Card holders only; no current or future visa sponsorship
• Engagement:
  Long-term enterprise initiatives (12+ months)
• Compliance:
  Certain financial services clients may require disclosure, transfer, or closure of personal trading and brokerage accounts to comply with trading policies

Key Responsibilities

• Application Assessment & Migration Strategy:
  Partner directly with application development teams to assess legacy architectures, map application dependencies, and determine appropriate migration approaches, including rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring.
• Hands-on AWS Migrations:
  Execute complex migrations of enterprise applications, databases, and data flows from on-premises data centers to AWS, minimizing downtime and maintaining data integrity.
• Cloud Architecture:
  Design secure, scalable, highly available AWS architectures optimized for demanding financial services applications, including high-throughput and latency-sensitive workloads.
• Migration Execution & Cutover:
  Lead migration planning, technical cutovers, validation, troubleshooting, and post-migration performance optimization.
• Database Migrations:
  Migrate enterprise databases to AWS-managed services, including Amazon RDS and Aurora, leveraging AWS DMS, AWS SCT, and related migration technologies.
• Infrastructure as Code:
  Design, develop, and maintain reusable infrastructure using
  Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK (Python or TypeScript)
  , including multi-account and multi-environment deployment patterns.
• Automation & CI/CD:
  Build and maintain deployment pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline, developing automation scripts in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Hybrid Cloud & Networking:
  Design secure connectivity between AWS workloads and existing on-premises environments, including VPC networking, Transit Gateway, DNS, load balancing, and hybrid integration.
• Security & Compliance:
  Implement AWS security best practices, including IAM, RBAC, encryption, KMS, network security, and audit logging, ensuring alignment with financial services regulatory requirements.
• Disaster Recovery:
  Implement highly available architectures, backup and recovery solutions, and multi-AZ or multi-region disaster recovery strategies.
• Technical Advisory:
  Serve as a trusted technical advisor to application engineering teams, providing architectural guidance, hands-on troubleshooting, and migration best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Experience:
  10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or cloud architecture, with extensive hands-on AWS migration experience.
• Financial Services:
  Minimum 3 years of experience within financial services, including investment banking, retail banking, fintech, or financial market infrastructure.
• AWS Engineering:
  Deep technical expertise across AWS services, including:
• Compute: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda
• Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ELB/ALB
• Databases & Storage: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3
• Security & Monitoring: IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
• Cloud Migrations:
  Proven experience migrating complex, production enterprise applications and databases from on-premises environments to AWS.
• Infrastructure as Code:
  Advanced hands-on experience with
  Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation
  , developing scalable, reusable infrastructure components.
• AWS CDK:
  Strong development experience using
  AWS CDK with Python or TypeScript
  , including custom constructs, infrastructure architecture, and multi-account deployment patterns.
• Migration Tooling:
  Practical experience with
  AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
  , or equivalent enterprise migration tools.
• Automation & Scripting:
  Strong proficiency with Python, Bash, or Go for infrastructure automation, migration workflows, and operational tooling.
• AWS Certification:
  Active
  AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  certification required; Professional certification preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Enterprise Database Migration:
  Experience migrating Oracle, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL databases to Amazon RDS or Aurora PostgreSQL, including schema conversion, stored procedure migration, and change data capture (CDC).
• Application Modernization:
  Experience modernizing legacy applications using containerization (Docker, ECS Fargate, EKS) or serverless architectures.
• AWS Migration Services:
  Advanced experience with AWS DMS, AWS SCT, MGN, and large-scale migration automation.
• DevOps & CI/CD:
  Strong experience implementing automated deployment pipelines, infrastructure validation, and cloud operational tooling.
• Regulated Environments:
  Experience delivering cloud solutions in highly regulated financial services environments, including PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and enterprise data protection requirements.
• Additional Certifications:
  AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Consulting Experience:
  Prior experience supporting AWS Professional Services or delivering large-scale cloud transformation programs for enterprise customers.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a
Senior AWS Cloud Engineer, AWS Migration Engineer, or Cloud Solutions Architect
with deep hands-on experience migrating mission-critical enterprise applications and databases to AWS.

This individual should be equally comfortable
designing cloud architectures and writing the infrastructure code required to implement them
, with significant experience in Terraform, AWS CDK, Python automation, and enterprise database migration.

Strong candidates will combine
AWS architecture, hands-on cloud engineering, complex on-premises-to-AWS migrations, financial services experience, and the ability to collaborate directly with application development teams
on large-scale modernization initiatives.