MA AWS DevOps Engineer (Senior) - Migration Project (VMware to AWS) Mactores · Remote · India · DevOps & Release Pay not stated 11mo ago

Devopsroles; Mumbai; Remote; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Mactores is an AWS modernization firm that moves large VMware estates to production-ready AWS environments. The role heads the design and implementation of Landing Zones, EKS-based platforms, and IaC, ensuring security, HA, and DR are baked into production cutovers.

Forward-deployed engineers own the delivery with customer stakeholders. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural tradeoffs, and own cutover sequencing to retire legacy VMware clusters.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on DevOps experience.
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• Strong experience in VMware-to-AWS migration projects or large-scale infrastructure migrations.
• 4+ years of Terraform and CloudFormation for IaC.
• 4+ years in configuration management and production-grade infra.
• Solid Linux and/or Windows administration.
• Deep understanding of AWS services (VPC, EC2, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch).
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS/ECS) and Docker in production.
• Design of HA, DR, security, and backup strategies.
• Landing Zone setup, multi-account strategy, and AWS governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of large-scale VMware-to-AWS migrations.
• Build secure, scalable AWS environments and landing zones.
• Design container platforms on Amazon EKS; exposure to ECS a plus.
• Implement IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Define and enforce security, backups, HA, DR, monitoring, and operations.
• Enable configuration management with Ansible/Chef; mentor engineers.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and manage build/release lifecycles for customer apps.
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, and operations.
• Retire legacy infra and land modern cloud-native architectures.
• Maintain DevOps platforms: Jenkins, Git, monitoring/observability stacks.
• Provide L3 support for complex infra and platform issues.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on long-term architecture and strategy.

Skills

DevOps architecture

Cloud infrastructure design

Terraform

CloudFormation

VMware-to-AWS migrations

Linux/Windows admin

Kubernetes (EKS/ECS)

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins/Git workflows

Security, HA, DR planning

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Ansible/Chef

Jenkins

Git

Docker

Kubernetes (EKS)

Job description

Mactores is the agent-native AWS modernization firm. Most modernization work doesn't ship, it stalls in pilots, slips a year, or lands at three times the budget. We exist to ship it: production systems running, legacy retired, outcomes measured. Our delivery is built on Aedeon, the agent platform built by Mactores' founders' sister company, which absorbs the repetitive 60–70% of engagement work, discovery, dependency mapping, validation, test generation, that traditional consulting bills human hours against. Forward-deployed engineers own the rest: architecture, judgment, and cutover, on dates we commit to in the contract.

This is a senior role in our Application & Database Modernization pillar, on a specific mission: leading a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration and landing it in production. VMware estates are exactly where modernization programs go to stall — sprawling dependency graphs, undocumented workloads, and a hypervisor bill that grows while the migration deck gathers dust. Our customers need that estate moved, cut over, and retired, on a date in the contract.

You'll lead the design and implementation of the target infrastructure: Landing Zones built to AWS best practices, EKS-based container platforms, Infrastructure as Code across the stack with Terraform and CloudFormation, and HA, DR, security, and backup strategies that hold up in production. Aedeon absorbs the discovery, dependency-mapping, and validation grind that would otherwise consume the project's first two quarters. You own the judgment calls, architecture tradeoffs, cutover sequencing, risk decisions and you carry them through to production. You'll also mentor engineers and shape long‑term infrastructure strategy with customer stakeholders. If you want your migration experience to end in retired VMware clusters rather than revised project plans, this is the role.

What you will do?

• Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure for a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration — from discovery through production cutover.


• Architect and build secure, scalable, and highly available AWS environments, including Landing Zones that follow AWS best practices.


• Design and implement containerized application platforms on Amazon EKS; exposure to ECS is a plus.


• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.


• Define and enforce best practices across security, backups, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), monitoring, and operations.


• Enable configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Chef, or similar.


• Build CI/CD pipelines and manage the complete build and release lifecycle for customer applications.


• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows.


• Retire legacy infrastructure and land cloud-native architectures in its place.


• Improve and maintain DevOps platforms: Jenkins, Git repositories, monitoring, and observability stacks.


• Provide L3-level support for complex infrastructure and platform issues.


• Work with stakeholders on technical strategy and long‑term architecture.


• Mentor engineers, contribute to talent evaluation, and support team development.

What are we looking for?

• 6+ years of hands‑on DevOps experience, with strong expertise in designing and managing cloud infrastructure.


• Strong experience in VMware‑to‑AWS migration projects or large‑scale infrastructure migrations.


• 4+ years of Terraform and CloudFormation for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).


• 4+ years in configuration management, systems engineering, and managing production‑grade infrastructure.


• Solid Linux and/or Windows administration background.


• Deep understanding of AWS services, including VPC, EC2, IAM, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Backup, CloudWatch, etc.


• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, and Docker in production environments.


• Hands‑on experience designing HA, DR, security, and backup strategies.


• Experience with Landing Zone setup, multi‑account strategy, and AWS governance frameworks.


• Proficiency in Git with a strong understanding of branching and merging strategies.


• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational tooling.


• A problem‑solving mindset that's proactive and oriented toward reliability, performance, and scalability.

You will be preferred if

• Experience across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).


• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional.


• Exposure to data platforms such as Amazon EMR, Redshift, Lake Formation, and SageMaker.


• Experience designing cloud architectures at an L3/Architect level.

How we work?

• We run a forward‑deployed model. Senior engineers embed with the customer's team, own outcomes from discovery through production, and carry the delivery commitment personally fixed dates, with Mactores absorbing overage cost for delays inside our control. Aedeon absorbs scale; you absorb judgment; the contract absorbs risk. On a migration this size, that division of labor is the difference between a cutover and a slide about a cutover. The culture is casual, moves fast, and measures itself by what ships.

Life at Mactores

We care about creating a culture that makes a real difference in the lives of every Mactorian. Our 10 Core Leadership Principles that honor Decision‑making, Leadership, Collaboration, and Curiosity drive how we work.1. Be one step ahead2. Deliver the best3. Be bold4. Pay attention to the detail5. Enjoy the challenge6. Be curious and take action7. Take leadership8. Own it9. Deliver value10. Be collaborative

We would like you to read more details about the work culture on https://mactores.com/careers

The Path to Joining the Mactores Team At Mactores, our recruitment process is structured around three distinct stages:Pre-Employment Assessment: A series of evaluations of your technical proficiency and suitability for the role.Managerial Interview: The hiring manager engages with you in multiple discussions, 30 minutes to an hour each, covering technical skills, hands‑on experience, leadership potential, and communication.HR Discussion: During this 30‑minute session, you'll have the opportunity to discuss the offer and next steps with a member of the HR team. Mactores provides equal opportunities in all employment practices. We don't discriminate based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local laws. This applies to every part of the employment relationship, recruitment, compensation, promotions, transfers, disciplinary action, layoff, training, and social and recreational programs.Note: Please answer as many questions as possible with this application to accelerate the hiring process.