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[Hiring] Cloud Migration Engineer @Effectual
Mar 27, 2025 - Effectual is hiring a remote Cloud Migration Engineer. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: USA.
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Role Description
The AWS Cloud Migration Engineer will be an integral member of a migration team assisting clients who are migrating from on-premises infrastructure or VMC to AWS cloud native services. You will work with a technical leader to implement, manage, and migrate workloads to AWS cloud environments, while maintaining optimal migration strategies for diverse application portfolios. The engineer will utilize AWS-native services, containerization, serverless architectures, and advanced analytics capabilities to modernize and migrate applications, ensuring seamless transitions that align with best practices and the Well-Architected Framework. The engineer will lead clients through Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate phases of an AWS MAP migration.
A Glimpse into the Daily Routine of a Cloud Migration Engineer:
- Responsible for planning, executing, and optimizing cloud migration projects on the AWS platform.
- Leverage expertise in AWS migration tools and methodologies to ensure successful and efficient migrations for clients.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to customer engineers as they begin to adopt AWS services.
Responsibilities
- Utilize AWS migration tools and methodologies to assess, plan, and execute migrations of workloads to the AWS platform.
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless application migrations across compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Utilize AWS services such as AWS Migration Hub (MGN) and Database Migration Service to facilitate migrations.
- Implement and manage cloud services and resources, such as virtual machines, containers, storage, networking, and serverless computing.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates to streamline the provisioning and configuration of cloud resources.
- Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure performance, ensuring efficient resource utilization and cost optimization.
- Provide technical guidance and expertise to client cloud engineers and support teams as they adopt AWS.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement and enforce cloud security measures, including access controls, encryption, and threat detection.
- Support incident response and troubleshooting of cloud infrastructure-related issues, ensuring minimal service disruptions.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience developing AWS cloud infrastructure.
- 2+ years hands-on experience with AWS migration services such as AWS Migration Hub (MGN), Database Migration Service (DMS), and AWS Cloud Migration Services.
- Solid experience planning and executing cloud migration projects, preferably on the AWS platform, including Mobilize (wave planning) and Migrate phases of an AWS Migration.
- Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform / AWS CloudFormation).
- Work with multiple clients, in parallel.
- Experience with AWS including core services and infrastructure components.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages like Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
- 2+ years experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
Nice to have
- Experience with log management, monitoring, and data analysis.
- Familiarity with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of networking concepts and protocols, including virtual private clouds (VPCs), subnets, load balancers, and DNS.
- Understanding of cloud security principles and best practices, including access controls, encryption, and security groups.
- Experience in data and database management, including data integration, ETL processes, SQL query optimization, and database administration.
- Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve cloud infrastructure and data-related issues.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders in English language.
- Continuous learning mindset to stay updated with emerging cloud technologies and industry trends.
- Knowledge of Agile / Scrum SDLC methodologies.
- Ability to work Eastern Standard Time Zone schedule.
- AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification.
- Experience in VMWare hosted Virtual Machine Infrastructure.
- Cloud Cost Optimization (Right-Sizing, Cost Management Tools).
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Mar 27, 2025
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