Our consultants are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cloud Migration Engineer with extensive experience modernizing and doing lift and shift migrations from the data center to the cloud. This individual will serve as a subject-matter expert on a team of cloud engineers tasked to help applications modernize and move to the cloud. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in supporting other teams migrate their application to the cloud. As a Senior Migration engineer, your primary job will be assisting teams with architecture and engineering support for migrating and\/or modernizing their application from an on-premises data center to AWS. This role requires in-depth technical expertise in common legacy data center architectures and of course experience in modern cloud architecture and software development. Given the consultative nature of this role, excellent communication and collaboration are a must have.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Compensation And Benefits
Salary Range: $160K - $190K
Team Leadership:
Be the subject-matter expert and help lead a team of software developers and cloud engineers responsible for cloud migration projects.
Set clear goals, priorities, and expectations for the team.
Mentor and coach team members, fostering their professional growth and development.
Provide technical guidance, resolve conflicts, and ensure the team's successful performance.
Application Assessment: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess existing applications, architecture, their dependencies, and requirements for migration to the cloud. Provide architecture suggestions to encourage the migration to our Kubernetes based Cloud PaaS (platform as a service).
Application Architecture and Design: Assist application teams in modernization efforts by educating on and helping them design scalable and cost-effective cloud architectures that meet the unique needs of each application, as well as educating them on how best to utilize our PaaS.
Development and Optimization: Assist and train your migration team to write, modify, and optimize code as needed to prepare applications for cloud migration, adhering to best practices for cloud development.
Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Work with the PaaS SRE team, and the application team to set up monitoring and logging solutions to ensure the health and performance of applications, proactively identifying and addressing issues.
Documentation: Write comprehensive documentation for migration processes, architecture designs, and best practices to facilitate knowledge sharing among teams.
Training and Support: Provide training and support to other development teams to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud, offering guidance and assistance as needed.
Security and Compliance: Collaborate with security teams to implement and maintain strong security measures and compliance standards within the cloud environment.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on cloud migration projects.
Proven experience in architecting a cloud native application hosted on k8s.
Experience in supporting and migrating legacy applications to the cloud
Expertise in programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, .NET) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
Experience with a variety of CI\/CD tools and technologies, such as Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, Kustomize, Helm K8, etc.
Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as code i.e.Terraform
Strong proficiency with AWS
Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI\/CD).
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills for working with diverse teams and stakeholders
The ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with customers.
Familiarity with Websphere & JBoss
Familiarity with Platform One: Big Bang
Familiarity with K8s Automation Frameworks (FluxCD, ArgoCD) Additional benefits:
Fully remote work within the U.S.
Exemplary Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
Health Care and Dependent Care Savings Accounts
Group Term Life Insurance auto-enrollment (for employees who participate in health insurance coverage)
401(k) with company matching after 1 year of service. Accounts are 100% vested immediately.
Universal Leave: Accrue up to 15 days in your first year of service, increasing to 18 days between thirteen months and three years of service, 21 days between four and nine years of service, and 24 days after 10 or more years of service
Eligible to roll over 240 hours annually
A company-provided laptop plus a $1,000 Home Office Bonus upon hire.
Paid parental leave for the care of a newborn or adopted child is compensated at 100% of the employee's regular, straight-time weekly pay.
Healthcare FSA (Flexible Spending Account) for eligible medical expenses
Dependent Care FSA (Flexible Spending Account) for eligible dependent care expenses
Continuous Education and training, including financial support for acquiring certifications
TO APPLY - Please forward resume to Paul Martin at pmartin@pailingroup.com
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