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, an