Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UST is a technology company that helps clients create transformative, human-centered solutions through technology. The Senior AWS Cloud Engineer will lead lift-and-shift migrations of on-premises servers, applications, storage, and file transfer processes to AWS, while designing cloud infrastructure, content delivery, secure transfer workflows, and containerized environments. The role also involves migration planning, cutover execution, post-migration validation, and documentation.
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
Skills
- (Must Have) 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 Amazon 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
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- 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)
- Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)
Benefits
- Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year.
- Full-time, regular employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year, pro-rated for new hires throughout the year.
- Full-time, regular employees receive 10 paid holidays.
- Full-time, regular employees are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty.
- Full-time, regular employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.
- Full-time, regular employees and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Full-time, regular employees receive company-paid basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits for employees only.
- Full-time, regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits.
- Full-time, regular employees may participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) and a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines.
- Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year, pro-rated for new hires throughout the year.
- Part-time employees 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.
- Full-time temporary employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching.
- Full-time temporary employees 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.
- All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.
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