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Senior AWS Engineer

SAR TECH LLCDallas, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 16, 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Dallas, TX, United States
Posted
23 hours ago

Job Description

Job Title : Senior AWS Migration 
*Client:* TBD
*Location:* Dallas,Tx/Seattle,WA(Hybrid,Once in a week)
 
 
### Role Summary
 
We are looking for a *Senior AWS Migration Specialist* to serve as the *onshore technical SPOC* for complex infrastructure and application migration initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with *AWS, AWS Outposts, migration strategy, capacity planning, hybrid cloud architecture, and large-scale data center/cloud transformations*.
 
### Key Responsibilities
 
* Serve as the primary *onshore technical SPOC* for migration programs.
* Lead end-to-end workload and infrastructure migration planning and execution.
* Design hybrid cloud solutions leveraging *AWS and AWS Outposts*.
* Perform detailed *capacity planning, sizing, forecasting, and resource optimization*.
* Assess existing environments and develop migration strategies and wave plans.
* Define target-state cloud and hybrid infrastructure architectures.
* Lead application/workload discovery, dependency mapping, and migration assessments.
* Determine appropriate migration approaches, including *Rehost, Replatform, and Refactor*.
* Coordinate with offshore engineering, infrastructure, application, networking, and security teams.
* Identify migration risks, dependencies, constraints, and remediation requirements.
* Develop migration runbooks, cutover plans, rollback strategies, and validation plans.
* Provide technical leadership during migration execution and production cutovers.
* Troubleshoot complex migration, infrastructure, performance, and capacity issues.
* Work closely with customer architects and senior stakeholders on technical decisions.
* Establish cloud migration standards, governance, and architecture best practices.
 
### Required Skills
 
* Strong hands-on experience with *AWS Cloud and AWS Outposts*.
* Experience leading *large-scale cloud and data center migrations*.
* Strong understanding of *hybrid cloud architecture*.
* Expertise in *capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, forecasting, and optimization*.
* Experience with workload discovery, dependency mapping, and migration assessments.
* Strong knowledge of AWS migration methodologies and strategies.
* Experience developing migration wave plans, runbooks, cutover plans, and rollback strategies.
* Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
* Ability to coordinate effectively with *onshore and offshore teams*.
* Experience working with enterprise infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams.

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