Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Lift & Shift Migration

UST; Calabasas (CA); Remote; USD 75,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

UST seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to lead lift-and-shift migrations from on-premises to AWS. You will re-host applications, storage, and file transfer, establishing secure patterns for ongoing operations.

You will design CloudFront delivery, S3 storage, and Transfer Family workflows, containerize apps with Docker, and drive runbooks and cutover plans while ensuring cost efficiency and security across migrated workloads.

Qualifications

• Experience leading lift-and-shift migrations to AWS.
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable cloud architectures.
• Strong knowledge of networking, IAM, and storage in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute lift-and-shift migration of on-premises servers, applications, and workloads to AWS.
• Design and implement content delivery using CloudFront and storage architecture using S3.
• Stand up and manage AWS Transfer Family endpoints (SFTP/FTPS/FTP).
• Containerize legacy applications with Docker for cloud-hosted environments.
• Develop migration runbooks, wave plans, and cutover strategies.
• Configure AWS networking, compute, security groups, and IAM for migrated workloads.
• Validate post-migration performance, cost, and security posture; remediate issues during cutover.
• Document migration architecture and operational procedures.

Skills

Cloud migration

AWS architecture

Security & IAM

Cost optimization

SRE / DevOps mindset

Tools

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon S3

AWS Transfer Family

Docker

WAF

IAM

EFS

VPC networking

Job description

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Lift & Shift Migration

The Role

We are looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to lead the migration of our on-premises workloads to AWS. This role is focused squarely on lift-and-shift migration - re-hosting existing applications, storage, and file transfer processes onto AWS infrastructure with minimal re-architecture, while establishing the content delivery, storage, and secure transfer patterns the environment will run on going forward.

What You’ll Do

• Plan and execute lift-and-shift migration of on-premises servers, applications, and workloads to AWS
• Design and implement content delivery using Amazon CloudFront and storage architecture using Amazon S3
• Stand up and manage secure file transfer workflows using AWS Transfer Family (SFTP/FTPS/FTP)
• Containerize legacy applications with Docker to prepare them for cloud-hosted environments
• Assess on-prem workloads and dependencies to build migration runbooks, wave plans, and cutover strategies
• Configure supporting AWS infrastructure - networking, compute, security groups, and IAM - for migrated workloads
• Validate post-migration performance, cost, and security posture, and remediate issues found during cutover
• Document migration architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures for the environment

What You Need

• (Required) Amazon CloudFront
• Hands-on experience designing and configuring CloudFront distributions for web content and application delivery
• Experience with origin configuration, caching behaviors, and invalidations
• Understands signed URLs/cookies and integration with WAF for edge security Amazon S3
• Experience designing S3 bucket architecture, storage classes, and lifecycle policies
• Understands S3 security - bucket policies, IAM access, encryption at rest, and versioning
• Experience migrating on-prem file storage and data to S3 AWS Transfer Family
• Hands-on experience standing up and managing AWS Transfer Family endpoints (SFTP/FTPS/FTP)
• Experience integrating Transfer Family with S3 or EFS as backend storage
• Understands user/identity management and access controls for managed file transfer Docker
• Hands-on experience containerizing applications with Docker, including writing and optimizing Dockerfiles
• Comfortable running and troubleshooting containerized workloads in a cloud environment Lift & Shift Migration Experience
• Has led or been a core contributor to at least one on-premises to AWS migration project
• Experience with migration assessment, wave planning, and cutover execution
• Comfortable working with legacy infrastructure and minimizing risk during transition

Preferred Qualifications

• These skills will strengthen a candidate's profile but are not a hard requirement.
• AWS Certifications * AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional * AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Location & Compensation

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.

Role Location: Remote - US

Compensation Range: $75,000-$113,000

Compensation range: $ 75,000.00 to 113,000.00 per year

Who We Are

Since 1999, UST has worked side by side with the world's best companies to make a powerful impact through transformation. Headquartered in the United States, UST is powered by technology, driven by AI, inspired by people, and led by our purpose, we partner with our clients from design to operation. Our AI-driven digital solutions, proprietary platforms, engineering, R&D, products, and innovation ecosystem turn core challenges into impactful, disruptive business outcomes. With deep industry knowledge and a future-ready mindset, we infuse expertise, innovation, and agility into our clients' organizations-delivering measurable value and positive lasting change for them, their customers, and communities around the world. Together, with 30,000+ employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact-touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at

Benefits

• Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty.
• They are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.
• They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA)