Hybrid AWS Cloud Engineer & Migration Lead

ActioNet; Suitland (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Education and Professional Training

Flexible Spending Accounts

Employee Referral and Merit Programs

PTO

Job summary

ActioNet seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer SME to lead design, build, and operation of secure, scalable AWS environments for modernization of complex systems in a hybrid Suitland, MD area. Requires deep AWS engineering and Python development, with legacy migration assessment.

The role collaborates with architects, TPMs, and dev teams to translate strategy into cloud-native solutions, implement IaC, CI/CD, security controls, and governance, while ensuring compliance and readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud engineering or related technical disciplines.
• 5+ years designing and implementing AWS solutions.
• Hands-on experience with AWS networking, compute, storage, security, databases, containers, and serverless services.
• Advanced Python development with production-quality coding and secure practices.
• Experience assessing legacy applications for cloud migration and modernization.
• Understanding of the 7 Rs migration framework and phased modernization approaches.
• Experience designing CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Strong understanding of containers, serverless, managed services, and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, observability, resiliency, and DR solutions.
• Ability to translate complex dependencies into deployable cloud solutions.
• Strong technical documentation, communication, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in discovery and assessment of legacy applications, infrastructure, dependencies, integrations, batch processes, and data flows.
• Document current-state architectures, system inventories, cloud readiness gaps, modernization constraints, and dependencies.
• Evaluate workloads using the 7 Rs migration framework and contribute to roadmaps and modernization waves.
• Design and implement secure, scalable AWS environments.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalents.
• Establish repeatable cloud environment patterns for development, testing, staging, and production.
• Implement AWS networking, IAM, encryption, resiliency, backup, DR, and security controls.
• Develop production-grade Python solutions including serverless functions and data tooling.
• Support modernization and refactoring of legacy Python apps and reusable cloud-native patterns.
• Implement AWS services: Lambda, ECS/EKS, Fargate, Glue, Aurora/PostgreSQL, S3, AWS Batch.
• Evaluate serverless, containerized, and managed-service architectures by performance, cost, and workload needs.
• Design CI/CD pipelines with automated builds, testing, security scanning, and deployment automation.
• Automate cloud provisioning and reproducible deployments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and capacity planning.
• Support load testing, scalability validation, and runbook development.
• Identify and mitigate integration risks across interdependent apps and clouds.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain consistent patterns.
• Support architecture reviews, security assessments, ATO readiness, and governance.
• Maintain traceable technical documentation and auditable deployment records.

Skills

AWS expertise

Python development

Migration planning

CI/CD pipelines

Documentation

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ECS/EKS

Lambda

S3

Aurora

Glue

AWS Batch

Job description

ActioNet seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer SME to lead design, build, and operation of secure, scalable AWS environments for modernization of complex systems in a hybrid Suitland, MD area. Requires deep AWS engineering and Python development, with legacy migration assessment.

The role collaborates with architects, TPMs, and dev teams to translate strategy into cloud-native solutions, implement IaC, CI/CD, security controls, and governance, while ensuring compliance and readiness.