Our consultants are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cloud Migration Engineer with extensive experience in modernizing and performing lift-and-shift migrations from data centers to the cloud. This individual will serve as a subject-matter expert on a team of cloud engineers tasked with helping applications modernize and migrate to the cloud. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in supporting other teams during their migration processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and serve as the subject-matter expert for cloud migration projects, guiding teams of software developers and cloud engineers.
- Set clear goals, priorities, and expectations for the team.
- Mentor and coach team members, fostering professional growth.
- Provide technical guidance, resolve conflicts, and ensure team performance.
- Assess existing applications and architectures, providing migration strategies to our Kubernetes-based Cloud PaaS.
- Assist in designing scalable, cost-effective cloud architectures tailored to application needs and educate teams on utilizing our PaaS.
- Support development and optimization of application code for cloud readiness following best practices.
- Collaborate with SRE and application teams to implement monitoring, logging, and troubleshoot issues.
- Document migration processes, architecture designs, and best practices.
- Provide training and support to ensure smooth cloud transition.
- Work with security teams to maintain security standards and compliance in the cloud environment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer with cloud migration expertise.
- Experience in architecting cloud-native applications on Kubernetes.
- Support and migration experience with legacy applications.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, .NET, and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab, Helm, Kustomize.
- Strong skills in Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
- Extensive AWS experience.
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD tools.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Familiarity with WebSphere, JBoss, Platform One Big Bang, and K8s automation frameworks like FluxCD and ArgoCD.
Salary Range: $160K - $190K
This is a fully remote position within the U.S. Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage, savings accounts, life insurance, 401(k), generous paid leave, a company laptop, a home office bonus, parental leave, FSA, and ongoing education support.
TO APPLY - Please forward your resume to Paul Martin at [contact email or method].