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Migrations Engineer Compute and Databases (Solutions Engineering) - Senior

ADDSOURCENew York, NY🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 7, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Migrations Engineer, where you'll lead the charge in modernizing complex financial applications to AWS, offering unparalleled opportunities for technical growth and impact. This hybrid role is perfect for seasoned engineers with extensive cloud migration experience who thrive in collaborative environments and are eager to shape the future of enterprise cloud solutions. Apply now to leverage your expertise and drive significant advancements in a critical, long-term initiative.

Quick Overview

Seniority

Mid Senior

Work mode

Hybrid

Location

New York, NY, United States

Posted

5 days ago

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Job Description

Role: Migrations Engineer Compute and Databases (Solutions Engineering) (Senior)

Location: US (Remote)

Duration: 12 Months +

Position Overview

The customer is launching a major enterprise-wide initiative to migrate and modernize their complex, legacy on-premises application portfolio to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In this role, you will be embedded directly as a dedicated, architecture guidance and hands-on cloud expert within specific application development teams. You will provide end-to-end technical guidance of migrating highly complex, high-throughput financial applications from on-premises data centers to AWS.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of deep technical experience, a proven track record of executing complex cloud migrations, strong architectural knowledge, and hands-on mastery of Infrastructure as Code (laC) and AWS services.

Key Responsibilities

1. Embedded Migration Execution

Application Assessment: Partner with your assigned application development team to analyze legacy architectures, map dependencies, and determine the optimal migration path (Rehost, Replatform, or Refactor).
Hands-on Migration: Execute the technical migration of complex workloads, databases, and data flows from on-premises environments to AWS, ensuring minimal downtime and zero data loss.
Cutover & Validation: Lead technical cutover planning, execute migration waves, and perform post-migration validation and performance tuning.

2. Cloud Architecture & Design

Target State Architecture: Design secure, resilient, and highly available AWS target architectures tailored to the specific performance and latency requirements of financial applications.
Integration & Hybrid Cloud: Design and implement secure connectivity between migrated cloud workloads and remaining on-premises systems or shared enterprise services.
Disaster Recovery: Implement robust multi-region or multi-AZ backup, recovery, and business continuity patterns.

3. Infrastructure as Code (laC) & Automation

Declarative Infrastructure: Write, test, and maintain modular, reusable Infrastructure as Code (laC) templates using Terraform to provision all application infrastructure.
CI/CD Integration: Build and integrate automated deployment pipelines (using GitLab Cl, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline) to establish fully automated, auditable deployment workflows.
Automation Scripting: Develop automation scripts (Python, Bash, or Go) to streamline migration tasks, data validation, and operational runbooks.

4. Security, Compliance & Governance

Financial Guardrails: Ensure all migrated architectures strictly adhere to financial regulatory standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, SOC2) and internal security policies.
Identity & Access Management: Implement least-privilege access controls using AWS IAM, role-based access control (RBAC), and security group configurations.
Data Protection: Configure end-to-end encryption for data-at-rest and data-in-transit using AWS KMS and secure certificate management.

Must Have

Experience: 10+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, software development, or infrastructure engineering, with a heavy focus on hands-on AWS cloud engineering and migrations.
Financial Services Background: 3+ years of experience working within a financial services institution (eg., investment banking, retail banking, fintech, or clearinghouses), with a strong understanding of financial security, compliance,
and data protection requirements.
AWS Expertise: Deep hands-on knowledge of core AWS services, including:
Compute & Containers: EC2, ECS, EKS, AWS Lambda
Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ELB/ALB
Storage & Databases: S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
Security & Management: IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
laC Proficiency: Advanced, production-proven experience writing declarative infrastructure using Terraform.
Migration Tooling: Hands-on experience with migration tools such as AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), Database Migration Service (DMS), or equivalent enterprise migration tooling.