Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - VMware-to-AWS Migration

Insight Global (United States); Radnor (Delaware County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support a large-scale migration from on‑prem VMware to AWS, handling ~380 VMs and 59 applications. The role involves building AWS environments, Terraform provisioning, and guiding modernization efforts while ensuring security and governance.

You will act as a senior resource, providing design reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing to engineers newer to AWS, with go-live and post-migration support responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS engineering with EC2, S3, IAM, VPC.
• Terraform experience for infra provisioning/configuration.
• Experience supporting VMware-to-AWS migrations and workload modernization.
• Linux/Windows server experience and understanding of dependencies.
• Proficient in scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash) and AWS services like CloudWatch, Route 53, RDS, Lambda.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, Docker/Kubernetes, monitoring and DR workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead migration from on-prem VMware to AWS for hundreds of VMs and dozens of apps.
• Assess infrastructure and dependencies, plan replatforming or modernization.
• Build, configure, and optimize AWS environments and governance controls.
• Provide guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing to junior engineers.
• Support go-live and post-migration operations, troubleshooting complex issues.

Skills

AWS core services (EC2 S3 IAM VPC)

Terraform

VMware-to-AWS migrations

Linux/Windows server admin

Scripting: Python/PowerShell/Bash

AWS networking and security

CI/CD with Git Docker Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Insight Global is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support a large-scale migration from on‑prem VMware to AWS, handling ~380 VMs and 59 applications. The role involves building AWS environments, Terraform provisioning, and guiding modernization efforts while ensuring security and governance.

You will act as a senior resource, providing design reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing to engineers newer to AWS, with go-live and post-migration support responsibilities.