Job Role: AWS Migration Engineer
Location: Herndon, VA | Washington, DC | Seattle, WA | Denver, CO
Work Model: Full-Time | On-Site
Experience: 5+ Years
Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI Required
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required
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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced AWS Infrastructure Migration Engineer to join a skilled cloud engineering team supporting a mission-critical, security-sensitive government initiative.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience migrating workloads across AWS environments, managing infrastructure configurations, and executing secure, repeatable deployment strategies. You will play a key role in ensuring smooth cloud migrations through structured testing, controlled cutovers, and reliable rollback procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and execute migrations across AWS environments with varying security and connectivity requirements.
- Align development, testing, and production infrastructure configurations.
- Design and implement repeatable deployment and migration procedures.
- Manage deployment artifacts, cutover strategies, and rollback plans.
- Validate migrated workloads to ensure functionality, security, and performance.
- Coordinate infrastructure changes with cloud platform, engineering, and security teams.
- Ensure migration activities follow established security and operational guidelines.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Migration or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud migration projects.
- Experience designing and executing migration strategies across different AWS environments.
- Knowledge of deployment automation, infrastructure configuration, and workload validation.
- Ability to develop safe cutover and rollback strategies in restricted environments.
- Experience working in highly controlled or security-sensitive cloud environments.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with eligibility for SCI read-on and additional program-specific access approvals.
- U.S. Citizenship is mandatory.
- Must reside within commuting distance of one of the approved work locations.
- Willingness to work on-site at a secure government facility.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working across AWS Commercial, AWS GovCloud, or other restricted AWS partitions.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and practices.
- Experience with Blue/Green deployment and migration strategies.
- Relevant AWS Professional or Specialty certifications. xhqgsiq
- Security+ or CISSP certification.
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