Senior AWS DevOps Migration Engineer

Role Objective / Success Criteria / KPI

• Support enterprise AWS migrations in accordance with the agreed target architecture and migration strategy.
• Design, implement and operate secure, scalable and reliable AWS platform services, migration tooling and deployment pipelines.
• Deliver lift-and-shift, re-architecture, database and data migrations with controlled cutover and effective hypercare.
• Improve platform governance, observability, automation and operational support using AWS and Infrastructure as Code technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess workloads and select appropriate migration approaches in line with the AWS 6 Rs framework.
• Prepare target environments, install required software and execute migrations, cutovers and post-migration hypercare.
• Support containerisation and re-architecture using Amazon EKS, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Build infrastructure and application deployment pipelines using Terraform, GitHub, GitOps and AWS-native tools.
• Migrate databases using AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Schema Conversion Tool.
• Design data-transfer solutions using AWS DataSync, Storage Gateway and Amazon S3.
• Provide day-to-day operational support for AWS platform services and core products.
• Collaborate with platform architects, application teams and business stakeholders throughout delivery.

Tasks

• Use AWS Application Migration Service where appropriate for lift-and-shift workloads.
• Install migration agents, perform assessments, convert schemas, synchronise data and manage database cutovers.
• Provision and manage cloud resources through Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and AWS Account Factory for Terraform.
• Diagnose and resolve issues across EC2, S3, EKS, RDS and other AWS platform services.
• Configure IAM, AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies, Microsoft Entra ID integrations and AWS Network Firewall policies.
• Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework and NIST cloud-security standards across platform and CI/CD solutions.
• Set up monitoring, KPIs, alarms and alerts using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Config, and support incident resolution and platform optimisation.
• Provide AWS platform training and create onboarding guides, FAQs and operating procedures.
• Migrated applications, databases and datasets aligned with the approved target architecture.
• Secure and reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and automated deployment pipelines.
• Configured AWS governance, identity, access-control and security policies.
• Operational monitoring, alerts, support procedures and incident-resolution outputs.
• Migration plans, cutover documentation, onboarding guides and knowledge-transfer material.

Decision Authority / Responsibility

• Recommend appropriate AWS migration patterns, tooling and automation within the agreed architecture and strategy.
• Own assigned migration and platform-engineering activities through assessment, build, testing, cutover and hypercare.
• Apply governance, security, reliability and cost-management controls to AWS platform solutions.
• Escalate material architecture, security, operational, cost or delivery risks to the appropriate stakeholders.

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering large-scale cloud migrations using the AWS 6 Rs framework.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and CI/CD pipeline development.
• Experience with AWS Account Factory for Terraform, CloudFormation, Terraform, GitHub, GitOps and AWS Developer Tools.
• Experience with AWS Systems Manager, Ansible and automated cloud operations.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, Microsoft Entra ID, AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies and NIST cloud-security standards.
• Experience with AWS FinOps and observability tools, including Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, AWS Glue, CloudWatch and AWS Config.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and orchestration using Amazon EKS or comparable Kubernetes platforms.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication and stakeholder-management skills, including explaining technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to work effectively within international, Agile and cross-functional teams.
• Successful completion of the required background verification before onboarding.