Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Data & Migration Specialist

Talentify; Suitland (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Education and Professional Training

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Employee Assistance and Identity Theft

Job summary

ActioNet is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our interdisciplinary team and lead cloud-native data analytics and production systems. You will migrate legacy on-premises systems to scalable AWS architectures, build CI/CD pipelines, and engage customers to ensure successful deployments.

This is a hybrid role with on-site support in Suitland, MD and remote work. You will leverage IaC best practices, work with Terraform and CloudFormation, and mentor teammates while keeping security and availability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IT, or related field.
• 7+ years of cloud architecture experience focused on AWS.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance – US Citizenship for Eligibility.
• Hybrid role with on-site support in Suitland, MD and Remote.
• Proven experience designing and implementing cloud-native applications.
• Strong understanding of application migration strategies and tools.
• Excellent knowledge of AWS services (S3, EMR, Glue, Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Athena, Redshift, SageMaker, QuickSight) and best practices.
• Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless architectures.
• Strong skills leveraging IaC developing automated deployment and orchestrations using Terraform, CloudFormation, and other scripting tools.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage effectively with customers and teams.
• AWS Certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect) highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cloud readiness assessments and create migration plans to AWS.
• Design scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions on AWS.
• Support architecting and implementing large-scale cloud-native ETL workloads.
• Provide recommendations for big data storage installations and configurations.
• Support database analysis, design, development, and operations for scalable backends.
• Guide migrations from on-prem to AWS ensuring data integrity and availability.
• Advise on best practices for cloud app design and IaC-based deployments.
• Engage with customers to gather requirements and tailor migration strategies.
• Configure CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, tests, and deployments in AWS.
• Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies and mentor team members.

Skills

AWS services

Security best practices

Cloud migrations

Customer engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ActioNet is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our interdisciplinary team and lead cloud-native data analytics and production systems. You will migrate legacy on-premises systems to scalable AWS architectures, build CI/CD pipelines, and engage customers to ensure successful deployments.

This is a hybrid role with on-site support in Suitland, MD and remote work. You will leverage IaC best practices, work with Terraform and CloudFormation, and mentor teammates while keeping security and availability