Cloud Database Migration Lead: Azure to AWS

Virtusa Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa Corporation is seeking a Database Migration Engineer to lead migrations of database workloads from Microsoft Azure to AWS. The role collaborates across application, infrastructure, security, and testing teams to ensure accurate, secure, and low-disruption transitions using Skylift AI or comparable tools.

The ideal candidate has hands-on cloud migration experience, deep SQL knowledge, and proficiency with AWS services like RDS, Aurora, DMS, and DynamoDB.

Qualifications

• Experience migrating databases across cloud platforms, preferably Azure to AWS.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
• Hands-on with AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DMS, DynamoDB).
• Familiarity with Azure AD, VNets, Private Endpoints is a plus.
• Proficient in automation scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash).

Responsibilities

• Assess source databases on Azure and define target architectures on AWS.
• Plan and execute database migration waves, including schema conversion, data replication, validation, and cutover.
• Use Skylift AI or similar migration tools to automate discovery, schema and code conversion, and migration tracking.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, networking, security, and QA workstreams to align dependencies, timelines, and rollback plans.
• Define and run data validation and reconciliation checks to confirm integrity after each migration stage.
• Identify performance, licensing, and compatibility risks, and recommend mitigations.
• Produce runbooks, migration status reports, and knowledge transfer material for operations teams.
• Support post-migration tuning, cost optimization, and decommissioning of Azure resources.

Skills

Database migrations

Database platforms

AWS DB services

Cross-team collaboration

Scripting (Python)

Tools

Skylift AI

AWS Schema Conversion Tool

AWS DMS

Job description

Virtusa Corporation is seeking a Database Migration Engineer to lead migrations of database workloads from Microsoft Azure to AWS. The role collaborates across application, infrastructure, security, and testing teams to ensure accurate, secure, and low-disruption transitions using Skylift AI or comparable tools.

The ideal candidate has hands-on cloud migration experience, deep SQL knowledge, and proficiency with AWS services like RDS, Aurora, DMS, and DynamoDB.