Cloud Migration Engineer – Architect
Job Description:
- Assess enterprise application portfolios and determine appropriate migration approaches using the 7 Rs framework
- Design secure, scalable, highly available AWS GovCloud architectures
- Develop migration plans, dependency mappings, runbooks, cutover procedures, rollback strategies, and validation criteria
- Use AWS migration services including MGN, DMS, DataSync, Application Discovery Service, and Migration Hub
- Migrate applications, virtual machines, databases, file systems, and enterprise data to AWS GovCloud
- Design and deploy compute and container platforms using EC2, EKS, and ECS
- Plan and execute storage, database, and data migrations, including synchronization, replication, validation, and cutover
- Design hybrid and cloud networking architectures using Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, routing, DNS, and security controls
- Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code technologies
- Implement standardized AWS GovCloud environments using Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS and enterprise landing-zone patterns
- Use FIPS endpoints and approved cryptographic configurations where required
- Design secure on-premises-to-GovCloud data-transfer approaches
- Implement micro-segmentation and security-group architectures aligned with Zero Trust principles
- Coordinate migration waves across application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, database, and business teams
- Manage migration dependencies, technical and business risks, outage windows, resource constraints, and remediation
- Validate migrated workloads for functionality, performance, security, resilience, observability, and operational readiness
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, recovery, and operational support capabilities
- Execute application modernization opportunities including containerization, managed services, automation, and cloud-native improvements
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing AWS cloud architectures, preferably within AWS GovCloud
- Strong understanding of enterprise application migration strategies and the 7 Rs migration framework
- Hands-on experience with AWS migration tooling including MGN, DMS, DataSync, Application Discovery Service, and Migration Hub
- Experience migrating enterprise applications, servers, databases, storage platforms, and data to AWS
- Strong experience with EC2, EKS, ECS, storage services, database services, and cloud-native architectures
- Experience designing hybrid cloud networking with Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPNs, routing, DNS, and network-security controls
- Hands-on experience developing infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Experience with Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS, AWS Organizations, account structures, guardrails, and standardized cloud foundations
- Understanding of FIPS endpoints, encryption requirements, and secure data-transfer patterns in government cloud environments
- Experience designing micro-segmented network architectures and Zero Trust security-group policies
- Strong understanding of application dependency analysis, migration-wave planning, cutover management, rollback planning, and technical risk management
- Experience with cloud monitoring, logging, operational readiness, backup, disaster recovery, and post-migration optimization
- Familiarity with application modernization, containerization, managed services, and cloud-native architecture patterns
- Experience supporting government, defense, regulated, or compliance-driven environments is preferred
- Strong architecture, troubleshooting, documentation, governance, stakeholder coordination, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Preferred certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional; AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional; AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty; AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Benefits:
- Competitive salary, paid twice per month
- Best in class medical coverage
- 100% of medical premiums covered by True Zero
- Company wide new business incentive programs
- Contribution Incentives (i.e. white papers, blog posts, internal webinars, etc.)
- 3 weeks of PTO starting + 11 Paid Holidays Annually
- 401k Program with 100% company match on the first 4%
- Monthly reimbursement of Cell Phone and Home Internet costs
- Paternity/Maternity Leave
- Investment in training and certifications to broaden and deepen your technical skills