Cloud Migration Engineer II

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of complex or multi-tier application migrations, overseeing the process from technical assessment to cutover, rollback, stabilization, and final handoff.

• Evaluate incomplete application and infrastructure details, validate dependencies and readiness risks, and provide recommendations for remediation.

• Choose and customize approved migration patterns and runbooks for Azure and AWS.

• Examine target environment configurations and troubleshoot issues related to compute, Windows and Linux operating systems, networking, storage, virtualization, identity, security, and application services.

• Organize replication, synchronization, shutdown and startup sequences, decision-making points, specialist involvement, escalation, cutover, and rollback processes.

• Lead the diagnosis and resolution of cross-domain migration challenges.

• Assess migration readiness, review runbooks, automation, validation results, technical evidence, and rollback feasibility.

• Create or enhance PowerShell, Bash, Python, infrastructure-as-code, and migration automation resources.

• Author or endorse runbooks and technical procedures, identifying areas for systemic improvement.

• Mentor Cloud Migration Engineer I staff, review technical outputs, and serve as a technical escalation resource without being a people manager.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.

• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, cloud engineering, or migration, including independent leadership of complex server or application migrations.

• Capability to assess technical readiness, analyze incomplete dependency information, select approved migration strategies, and tailor runbooks as needed.

• Practical experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud environments, covering target configurations, migration tools, validation, troubleshooting, and operational handoff.

• Advanced troubleshooting skills across Windows Server, Linux, networking, storage, virtualization, identity and access management, security controls, and application dependencies.

• Experience in installing, upgrading, configuring, and troubleshooting Windows Server and Linux environments, including distributions like Red Hat, Oracle Linux, CentOS, or similar.

• Familiarity with managing Windows and Linux file systems, including PowerShell-based Windows administration as well as Linux LVM and ZFS.

• Experience in supporting migrations using Azure File Sync, AWS DataSync, rsync, robocopy, Azure Files, NFS, and/or Amazon EFS.

• Ability to establish performance baselines, diagnose performance issues, and recommend appropriate cloud target sizing.

• Skills in developing or enhancing PowerShell, Bash, Python, infrastructure-as-code, or similar automation solutions.

• Experience in reviewing engineers’ runbooks, automation, validation evidence, or migration artifacts and offering technical guidance.

• Knowledge of applying or validating STIG controls and/or DoD security requirements.

• An associate-level cloud certification is strongly preferred.

• Advanced or complementary certifications are preferred.

• Proven experience in leading technical cutover and rollback decisions.

• Background in migrating multi-tier applications and resolving cross-domain migration challenges.

• Experience in developing reusable Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure-as-code modules.

• Proficiency in using GitHub and GitHub Copilot.

• Familiarity with federal program delivery and ServiceNow-based change management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employee ownership.

• Access to resources, training, and mentorship for professional development.

• An inclusive culture where diversity is valued.

• Work that is driven by a meaningful mission.

• Remote work flexibility.