Remote Position
[Remote] Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – Lift & Shift Migration
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UST is hiring a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to lead the lift-and-shift migration of on-premises workloads to AWS. The role focuses on re-hosting applications, storage, and file transfer processes while establishing cloud content delivery, storage, and secure transfer patterns.
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute lift-and-shift migration of on-premises servers, applications, and workloads to AWS
- Design and implement content delivery using Amazon CloudFront and storage architecture using Amazon S3
- Stand up and manage secure file transfer workflows using AWS Transfer Family (SFTP/FTPS/FTP)
- Containerize legacy applications with Docker to prepare them for cloud-hosted environments
- Assess on-prem workloads and dependencies to build migration runbooks, wave plans, and cutover strategies
- Configure supporting AWS infrastructure — networking, compute, security groups, and IAM — for migrated workloads
- Validate post-migration performance, cost, and security posture, and remediate issues found during cutover
- Document migration architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures for the environment
Skills
- Hands-on experience designing and configuring CloudFront distributions for web content and application delivery
- Experience with origin configuration, caching behaviors, and invalidations
- Understands signed URLs/cookies and integration with WAF for edge security
- Experience designing S3 bucket architecture, storage classes, and lifecycle policies
- Understands S3 security — bucket policies, IAM access, encryption at rest, and versioning
- Experience migrating on-prem file storage and data to S3
- Hands-on experience standing up and managing AWS Transfer Family endpoints (SFTP/FTPS/FTP)
- Experience integrating Transfer Family with S3 or EFS as backend storage
- Understands user/identity management and access controls for managed file transfer
- Hands-on experience containerizing applications with Docker, including writing and optimizing Dockerfiles
- Comfortable running and troubleshooting containerized workloads in a cloud environment
- Has led or been a core contributor to at least one on-premises to AWS migration project
- Experience with migration assessment, wave planning, and cutover execution
- Comfortable working with legacy infrastructure and minimizing risk during transition
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Benefits
- Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year.
- Full-time, regular employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).
- Full-time, regular employees receive 10 paid holidays.
- Full-time, regular employees are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty.
- Full-time, regular employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.
- Full-time, regular employees and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Full-time, regular employees receive Company-paid Employee Only basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
- Full-time, regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits.
- Full-time, regular employees may participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) and a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines.
- Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico.
- Remote work in the US.
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