Cloud Migration Engineer II

Applied Information Sciences; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Information Sciences is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to drive cloud migrations, focusing on Azure and AWS. The role is remote, with ownership of complex, multi-tier migrations from planning to cutover.

You will assess readiness, adapt runbooks, and coordinate cross-team execution while supporting automation and guardrails. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, expert knowledge of migration patterns, and the ability to mentor staff without

Qualifications

• Senior hands-on engineer owning moderate-to-high migrations to Azure and AWS.
• Assesses technical readiness and selects migration patterns.
• Not a people manager; focuses on technical execution and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Owns complex migrations from assessment through cutover and handoff.
• Validates dependencies and readiness risks; develops remediation plans.
• Adapts migration runbooks and patterns for project needs.
• Coordinates execution including replication, cutover, and rollback activities.
• Develops automation assets (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Cloud migration

Infrastructure design

Cross-team leadership

Technical troubleshooting

Executive communication

Tools

Azure

AWS

PowerShell

Python

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

What you will be doing?

This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Lead Infrastructure Engineer.

Core Knowledge & Skills:

Aligns infrastructure strategy to business goals, leads large projects, applies compliance frameworks, designs high availability/disaster recovery and performance optimization patterns, and shapes deployment pipeline design.

Work & Complexity:

Directs cross-team programs, performs advanced tuning, implements high availability/failover architectures, leads audits, plans growth, and manages budgets.

Quality & Independence:

Delivers high-quality outcomes, sets team standards, introduces innovative solutions, and makes high-impact decisions.

Teamwork & Communication:

Leads the engineering team, develops talent, resolves conflicts, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders.

Consulting & Engagement:

Provides high-level consulting to leadership, builds roadmaps, negotiates vendor contracts, and sponsors innovation initiatives.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Cloud Migration Engineer II.

Project Summary

The Cloud Migration Engineer II is a senior hands‑on engineer who owns moderate-to-high complexity and multi‑tier application migrations from on‑premises data centres to Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The role independently assesses technical readiness, selects and adapts approved migration patterns, coordinates technical execution, resolves cross‑domain issues, and ensures that migration, validation, rollback, and stabilisation activities are completed safely and consistently. The role remains hands‑on and is not a people‑manager or architect position. The role is remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Owns moderate-to-high complexity or multi-tier application migrations from technical assessment through cutover, rollback, stabilisation, and handoff.
• Analyzes incomplete application and infrastructure information, validates complex dependencies and readiness risks, and recommends remediation before migration.
• Selects and adapts approved Azure and AWS migration patterns and runbooks within program guardrails to address application‑specific requirements.
• Reviews target‑environment configuration and resolves design or integration issues involving compute, Windows and Linux operating systems, networking, storage, virtualization, identity, security, and application services.
• Coordinates technical migration execution, including replication, synchronization, shutdown and startup sequencing, decision points, specialist engagement, escalation, cutover, and rollback activities.
• Leads diagnosis and resolution of cross-domain migration issues and determines when an architect or shared engineering specialist must be engaged.
• Reviews migration readiness, runbooks, automation, validation results, technical evidence, and rollback viability before key migration decisions.
• Develops or improves reusable PowerShell, Bash, Python, infrastructure‑as‑code, and migration automation assets using approved GitHub repositories and program standards.
• Authors or approves runbooks and technical procedures for complex migration patterns and identifies systemic improvements to migration‑factory methods, automation, guardrails, and controls.
• Guides Cloud Migration Engineer I staff, reviews technical work, and serves as a technical escalation point without acting as a people manager.

Required For This Opportunity

• US Citizen
• Minimum five years of progressively responsible infrastructure engineering, sys