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Job Title: OBSv2 to AWS S3 Migration Platform Engineer
Location: Dallas, TX (100% Onsite)
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Role Summary: Lead the design, build, and operation of a secure, scalable migration platform to move object data from OBSv2 to AWS S3. The role focuses on reliable execution, automation, governance, monitoring, and production support for large scale enterprise data migration.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end migration workflow from OBSv2 source buckets to AWS S3 destination buckets.
- Build and operate AWS-based orchestration using Step Functions, Lambda, Fargate, AWS Batch, DynamoDB, SQS, and rclone.
- Support both manifest-based and dynamic migration approaches, including batching, sharding, task sizing, and retry handling.
- Implement governance for bandwidth allocation, queue management, prioritisation, throttling, and job tracking.
- Build observability through CloudWatch dashboards, logs, metrics, alerts, health checks, and progress reporting.
- Support secure multi-account deployment, IAM controls, privacy safeguards, testing, performance tuning, and production cutover.
- Expected Deliverables · Production-ready migration orchestration platform supporting both manifest and no-manifest paths.
- Hub-side governance for bandwidth control, queue processing, throttling, and completion reporting.
- Reusable rclone-based migration runtime with progress reporting and dynamic throttle support.
- DynamoDB-backed job, task, queue, bandwidth, and summary state management.
- CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, logs, runbooks, deployment automation, and operational documentation.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with Dell ECS, OBSv2, or other S3-compatible enterprise object storage platforms.
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale migrations in regulated, production environments.
- Experience with hub-and-spoke operating models across multiple AWS accounts.
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation and leadership-ready reporting.
Mandatory Technical Skills
- AWS Serverless
- AWS Compute and Containers
- AWS Storage
- Object Storage Migration
- Python Development
- DynamoDB
- Networking
- IAM and Security
- Observability
- CI/CD and Deployment
Know-How Skills and Domain Understanding:
- Understand large-scale object storage migration patterns, including manifests, prefix-based partitioning, batching, and validation.
- Balance migration performance across data volume, object count, compute resources, network capacity, and rclone concurrency.
- Design fair bandwidth allocation, throttling, queue handling, retry, and escalation models for production migrations.
- Apply strong operational discipline across monitoring, runbooks, restart procedures, completion checks, and stakeholder reporting.
- Maintain clear technical documentation, architecture notes, input contracts, implementation details, and support procedures.
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