Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – Lift & Shift Migration

UST is a technology company that delivers AI-driven digital solutions, engineering, research and development, and innovation services. The Senior AWS Cloud Engineer will lead lift-and-shift migration of on-premises servers, applications, storage, and file transfer processes to AWS while designing cloud infrastructure, validating post-migration performance and security, and documenting migration procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute lift-and-shift migration of on-premises servers, applications, and workloads to AWS
• Design and implement content delivery using Amazon CloudFront and storage architecture using Amazon S3
• Stand up and manage secure file transfer workflows using AWS Transfer Family (SFTP/FTPS/FTP)
• Containerize legacy applications with Docker to prepare them for cloud-hosted environments
• Assess on-prem workloads and dependencies to build migration runbooks, wave plans, and cutover strategies
• Configure supporting AWS infrastructure — networking, compute, security groups, and IAM — for migrated workloads
• Validate post-migration performance, cost, and security posture, and remediate issues found during cutover
• Document migration architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures for the environment
• This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience designing and configuring CloudFront distributions for web content and application delivery
• Experience with origin configuration, caching behaviors, and invalidations
• Understands signed URLs/cookies and integration with WAF for edge security
• Experience designing S3 bucket architecture, storage classes, and lifecycle policies
• Understands S3 security — bucket policies, IAM access, encryption at rest, and versioning
• Experience migrating on-prem file storage and data to S3
• Hands-on experience standing up and managing AWS Transfer Family endpoints (SFTP/FTPS/FTP)
• Experience integrating Transfer Family with S3 or EFS as backend storage
• Understands user/identity management and access controls for managed file transfer
• Hands-on experience containerizing applications with Docker, including writing and optimizing Dockerfiles
• Comfortable running and troubleshooting containerized workloads in a cloud environment
• Has led or been a core contributor to at least one on-premises to AWS migration project
• Experience with migration assessment, wave planning, and cutover execution
• Comfortable working with legacy infrastructure and minimizing risk during transition
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate