Senior Cloud Engineer

Kunai

Senior Cloud Engineer leading the migration of a major financial services data platform to AWS. Responsible for end-to-end execution, architecture implementation, and mentoring peers.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Amazon RedshiftAWSBigQueryCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own end-to-end data migration execution from GCP to AWS
Build synchronization pipelines with tight SLAs
Implement the AWS data architecture end to end
Migrate historical and time-series data at scale
Create monitoring, alerting, and reconciliation frameworks
Share expertise, mentor peers, and elevate the team

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent experience
BigQuery to Redshift, Cloud SQL to Aurora/RDS experience
Data mapping, schema conversion, and ETL/ELT pipeline design at enterprise scale
Dimensional modeling and transactional database optimization
CDC (Change Data Capture), real-time replication, latency tuning
Strong opinions on eventual vs. strong consistency
AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent certifications are a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation
Professional development opportunities
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

data migrationAWS data architectureETLELTdimensional modelingtransactional database optimizationChange Data Capturereal-time replicationlatency tuningdata mapping

Soft Skills

mentoringteam collaborationexpertise sharing

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect