Senior Cloud Infra Engineer - AWS Foundations & Migrations

megazone; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Megazone Cloud is seeking a seasoned Cloud Engineer to design and operate secure AWS foundations and execute large-scale migrations from on-premise and VMware environments.

You will implement Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, and multi-account architectures, while guiding migration strategies, automating workflows, and ensuring cost efficiency. Strong AWS, IaC, and virtualization experience are required.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years experience designing and operating infrastructure with deep hands-on AWS experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field is required.
• Hands-on experience building AWS foundational environments - Control Tower, LZA, Organizations, and multi-account architecture.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud migrations; multi-wave migrations are a strong plus.
• Practical experience with rehost and replatform migrations and advising the right approach per workload.
• VMware background is a plus (vSphere/vCenter, ESXi, VM administration).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy AWS foundational environments using Control Tower and LZA.
• Define and implement multi-account strategy with AWS Organizations, OU structure, and centralized logging and security tooling.
• Implement IAM and Identity Center, guardrails, and security baselines across accounts.
• Lead discovery of on-premises estates, dependency mapping, and migration wave planning.
• Determine migration strategy per workload—rehost or replatform—balancing speed and cost.
• Perform lift-and-shift replication of VMs into EC2 with image conversion and OS remediation.
• Replatform workloads onto managed AWS services (RDS, ALB/NLB, CloudFront).
• Automate migration workflows with AWS Transform, Lambda, and Step Functions.
• Design hybrid connectivity (Direct Connect, VPN, Transit Gateway) and integrate AD.
• Provision VPC, compute, storage, and DB via Terraform and CDK.
• Develop and maintain pipeline automation for infra and app deployments.
• Configure logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting with SRE practices.
• Produce design documents, runbooks, diagrams, and handover guides.

Skills

AWS foundational architecture

Cloud migration experience

IaC: Terraform & AWS CDK

Scripting: Python/Bash/PowerShell

Linux/Windows Server administration

CI/CD pipelines & DevSecOps

Documentation & customer-facing comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

Tools

AWS Control Tower

Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA)

AWS Organizations

IAM and Identity Center

Terraform

AWS CDK

VMware (vSphere/vCenter/ESXi)

AWS Transform

DMS / DataSync / Snow Family

Job description

Megazone Cloud is seeking a seasoned Cloud Engineer to design and operate secure AWS foundations and execute large-scale migrations from on-premise and VMware environments.

You will implement Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, and multi-account architectures, while guiding migration strategies, automating workflows, and ensuring cost efficiency. Strong AWS, IaC, and virtualization experience are required.