AWS Cloud Migration Engineer

Peraton

22h • $86,000 - $138,000

About The Position

Peraton is seeking an AWS Cloud Migration Engineer to be a part of a team supporting a federal financial customer. The successful candidate will help migrate critical customer data flows in a secure, agile, and innovative AWS environment leveraging GitLab for CI/CD and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.
What will you do:
Lead the planning and execution of migrating and maintaining large complex data flows to modern cloud environments, specifically leveraging AWS cloud technologies.
Support and enhance COTS products providing file transfer and MQ services (e.g., IBM MQ, Connect:Direct), integrating them into modern AWS architecture.
Write clean, maintainable infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and cloud service logic using tools such as Python, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation or CDK.
Develop and support infrastructure using CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles.
Perform troubleshooting, performance tuning, and documentation of AWS environments and deployed solutions.
Coordinate closely with stakeholders across teams to manage integration and interface requirements, ensuring clear communication and alignment with overall business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree and 5 years of experience or 9 years of experience and a HS Diploma.
• Experience supporting or integrating message file transfer tools using Axway Secure Transport SFTP/HTTPS
• Experience with GitLab for source control and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions in the cloud such as: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, TEOS.
• Experience with scripting (Shell, Python, or similar) for configurations and deployments.
• Proficiency automating service tool deployments, such as Lambda, EC2, EKS.
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix operating systems.
• Knowledge of networking concepts (firewalls, ports, TLS/SSL, certificates)
• Experience communicating with business users and stakeholders.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain/maintain the required agency clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Strong background in AWS cloud engineering and development, including experience with services such as: EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, SNS, SQS, EKS/ECS, Secrets Manager, Key Vaults.
• Familiarity with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and participation in Agile delivery teams (e.g., Scrum, SAFe).
• Understanding compliance and security best practices in federal financial cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of migrating and maintaining large complex data flows to modern cloud environments, specifically leveraging AWS cloud technologies.
• Support and enhance COTS products providing file transfer and MQ services (e.g., IBM MQ, Connect:Direct), integrating them into modern AWS architecture.
• Write clean, maintainable infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and cloud service logic using tools such as Python, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation or CDK.
• Develop and support infrastructure using CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles.
• Perform troubleshooting, performance tuning, and documentation of AWS environments and deployed solutions.
• Coordinate closely with stakeholders across teams to manage integration and interface requirements, ensuring clear communication and alignment with overall business objectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level