Senior AWS DevOps Engineer: VMware-to-AWS Migration Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

the company in the United States is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Architect to lead a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration and production cutover. You will design Landing Zones, secure AWS environments, and container platforms on EKS, using Terraform and CloudFormation for IaC.

You will mentor engineers, shape long-term infrastructure strategy with customer stakeholders, and own architectural tradeoffs, risk decisions, and cutover sequencing to ensure on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on DevOps experience, with strong expertise in designing and managing cloud infrastructure.
• 4+ years of Terraform and CloudFormation for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• 4+ years in configuration management, systems engineering, and managing production‑grade infrastructure.
• Solid Linux and/or Windows administration background.
• Deep understanding of AWS services, including VPC, EC2, IAM, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Backup, CloudWatch, etc.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, and Docker in production environments.
• Hands‑on experience designing HA, DR, security, and backup strategies.
• Experience with Landing Zone setup, multi-account strategy, and AWS governance frameworks.
• Proficiency in Git with a strong understanding of branching and merging strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure for a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration — from discovery through production cutover.
• Architect and build secure, scalable, and highly available AWS environments, including Landing Zones that follow AWS best practices.
• Design and implement containerized application platforms on Amazon EKS; exposure to ECS is a plus.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Define and enforce best practices across security, backups, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), monitoring, and operations.
• Enable configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Chef, or similar.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and manage the complete build and release lifecycle for customer applications.
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Retire legacy infrastructure and land cloud-native architectures in its place.
• Improve and maintain DevOps platforms: Jenkins, Git repositories, monitoring, and observability stacks.
• Provide L3-level support for complex infrastructure and platform issues.
• Work with stakeholders on technical strategy and long-term architecture.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to talent evaluation, and support team development.

Skills

DevOps experience

VMware-to-AWS migrations

AWS knowledge

Kubernetes (EKS)

CI/CD pipelines

Git & branching

Security & HA/DR design

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Chef

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

the company in the United States is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Architect to lead a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration and production cutover. You will design Landing Zones, secure AWS environments, and container platforms on EKS, using Terraform and CloudFormation for IaC.

You will mentor engineers, shape long-term infrastructure strategy with customer stakeholders, and own architectural tradeoffs, risk decisions, and cutover sequencing to ensure on-time delivery.