AWS DevOps Engineer (Senior) - Migration Project (VMware to AWS)

What you will do?

• Lead the end-to-end design and implementation of infrastructure for a large-scale migration project from VMware to AWS.
• Architect and build secure, scalable, and highly available AWS environments, including Landing Zones following AWS best practices.
• Design and implement containerized application platforms using Amazon EKS; exposure to ECS is a plus.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Define and enforce best practices across Security, Backups, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Monitoring, and Operations.
• Enable configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Chef, or similar.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and manage the complete build and release lifecycle for customer applications.
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Modernize legacy infrastructure and enable cloud-native architectures.
• Enhance and maintain DevOps platforms including Jenkins, Git repositories, monitoring, and observability stacks.
• Provide L3-level support for complex infrastructure and platform-related issues.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design technical strategy and long-term architecture.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to talent evaluation, and support team development.

What are we looking for?

• 6+ years of hands-on DevOps experience, with strong expertise in designing and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience in VMware-to-AWS migration projects or large-scale infrastructure migrations.
• 4+ years of Terraform and CloudFormation for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• 4+ years in configuration management, systems engineering, and managing production-grade infrastructure.
• Solid Linux and/or Windows administration background.
• Deep understanding of AWS services, including VPC, EC2, IAM, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Backup, CloudWatch, etc.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, and Docker in production environments.
• Hands-on experience designing HA, DR, Security, and Backup strategies.
• Experience with Landing Zone setup, multi-account strategy, and AWS governance frameworks.
• Proficiency in Git with strong understanding of branching and merging strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational tooling.
• Strong problem-solving mindset, proactive, and oriented toward reliability, performance, and scalability.

You will be preferred if

• Experience across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Exposure to data platforms such as Amazon EMR, Redshift, Lake Formation, and SageMaker.
• Experience in designing cloud architectures at an L3/Architect level.