Cloud Migration Engineer 100% Remote

Cloud Migration Engineer  100% Remote 

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, secure, and optimize scalable cloud environments supporting applications, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) platforms. This position will play a key role in migrating on-premises applications, workloads, and databases to public cloud environments while ensuring security, compliance, performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), along with expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, networking, virtualization, and systems administration.
Key Responsibilities

• Develop and modify scalable cloud architecture supporting applications, IaaS, and PaaS platforms.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure cloud environments meet security, compliance, data protection, and privacy requirements.
• Plan and execute migrations of on-premises applications, workloads, and databases to public cloud platforms.
• Monitor and analyze cloud infrastructure performance and proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Optimize cloud environments for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other cross-functional teams to support cloud initiatives.
• Develop automation and scripting solutions to improve infrastructure deployment, management, and operational efficiency.
• Design and maintain controls and processes using available cloud audit and monitoring tools.
• Support cloud networking, virtual private clouds (VPCs), firewalls, and related security infrastructure.
• Maintain advanced knowledge of cloud products, services, technologies, and industry best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and recommendations regarding cloud architecture and infrastructure strategy.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong proficiency with at least one major public cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with automation and scripting using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and firewalls.
• Advanced experience with virtual machine (VM) management and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Strong Windows Server and Active Directory administration experience.
• Experience administering Linux environments.
• Understanding of cloud security, compliance, monitoring, and infrastructure best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5–6+ years of experience working with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Previous experience supporting government, public-sector, or highly regulated environments.
• Experience with cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Familiarity with cloud governance, auditing, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• Equivalent combination of education, certifications, and professional experience will be considered.

Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a hands-on cloud infrastructure professional who can balance architecture, security, automation, and day-to-day operations. They should be comfortable working across both cloud and traditional infrastructure environments and collaborating with technical teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable cloud solutions.