Senior Cloud Engineer: AWS Migration & Automation Lead

Synechron; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Work abroad opportunities

Paid annual leave

Maternity & paternity leave

Insurance plan

Retirement savings

Udemy for Business access

Training opportunities

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Synechron is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead cloud migration initiatives and deliver AWS-based infrastructure solutions. The role focuses on building, deploying, and optimizing cloud platforms while collaborating with architects and engineering teams across the organization.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on AWS experience, expertise in automation, CI/CD, and IaC, and a track record of delivering modernization projects in complex enterprise environments. NYC-based and onsite.

Qualifications

• Expert in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering cloud migration, modernization, and application remediation initiatives.
• Strong expertise in automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, observability, and production support.
• Experience supporting critical enterprise applications within complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy AWS infrastructure and platform components.
• Execute application migration and modernization activities.
• Implement infrastructure automation and deployment pipelines.
• Support environment provisioning, testing, and production readiness activities.
• Monitor and resolve migration-related technical issues.
• Collaborate with application teams to optimize performance, security, and reliability.
• Support cutover, stabilization, and legacy platform decommissioning activities.

Skills

AWS

Cloud migration

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Synechron is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead cloud migration initiatives and deliver AWS-based infrastructure solutions. The role focuses on building, deploying, and optimizing cloud platforms while collaborating with architects and engineering teams across the organization.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on AWS experience, expertise in automation, CI/CD, and IaC, and a track record of delivering modernization projects in complex enterprise environments. NYC-based and onsite.