Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optomi, in partnership with a leading global financial services firm, is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join their AWS migration team. This is a hands-on, technical engineering role driving end-to-end migrations of enterprise applications into AWS.
Responsibilities
- Conduct readiness assessments covering security, networking, compute/storage requirements, and risk
- Determine migration strategy using the 6R framework (rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain)
- Execute migrations into AWS using best practices, repeatable patterns, and infrastructure-as-code
- Implement and standardize AWS foundations, including landing zones/account structures, VPC networking, security controls, compliance guardrails, and CI/CD pipelines
- Build and maintain IaC templates for repeatable deployments and migrations
- Utilize AWS Migration Hub, Application Migration Service (MGN), and Database Migration Service (DMS) to execute migrations
- Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework to guide migration decisions and guardrails
Skills
- Proven experience personally leading or executing application migrations to AWS (hands-on delivery, not just support)
- Strong hands-on experience with core AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch
- Real production experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- Scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for migration task automation
- Solid grasp of migration methodology: 6R strategies, discovery/dependency mapping, sizing/estimation, and migration best practices
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
- Kafka or streaming technology experience
- Exposure to 'Transform' or agentic/AI-assisted migration tooling
- Experience migrating legacy databases (Sybase, DB2) to AWS Postgres
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