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.Making sure you fit the guidelines as an applicant for this role is essential, please read the below carefully.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 DetailsClient: AWS Professional Services (ProServe), supporting large enterprise customers, primarily in financial servicesEmployment Type: Full-time, permanent position (not contract; C2C and subcontracting arrangements are not considered)Location: 100% Remote – United StatesWork Authorization: U.S. citizens or Green Card holders only; no current or future visa sponsorshipEngagement: 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 policiesKey ResponsibilitiesApplication 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 QualificationsExperience: 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, LambdaNetworking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ELB/ALBDatabases & Storage: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3Security & Monitoring: IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrailCloud 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 QualificationsEnterprise 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 ProfileThe 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. xhyhwjd 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.