Senior Cloud Migration Engineer

Effectual

Senior Cloud Migration Engineer at Effectual working on AWS cloud transformations and migrations. Leading client cloud projects and ensuring best practices are followed.

Posted 8/14/2025full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCassandraCloudDNSDockerETLKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNoSQLPostgresPythonSDLCSQLTerraformVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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) or Database Migration Service (DMS) 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

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of IT implementation experience
7+ 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 of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision health insurances,
Short term disability, long term disability and life insurances,
401k with Company match
Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year)
Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year)
These and any other employee benefit offerings are subject to management’s discretion and may change at any time.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWS migration toolscloud infrastructure designautomation scriptsinfrastructure-as-codeAWS Migration HubDatabase Migration ServiceTerraformAWS CloudFormationscriptingcloud security measures

Soft Skills

collaborationtechnical guidanceproblem-solvingcommunicationproject management