AWS Engineer – Cloud Architecture, Migration, Terraform/CloudFormation & Hybrid Infrastructure
Job Summary
Synechron is seeking a Senior AWS Engineer with 8-15+ years of IT infrastructure and cloud experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on AWS architecture and migration experience. The role will focus on designing, migrating, implementing, and supporting secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure solutions.The successful candidate will apply expertise across enterprise data center infrastructure, Windows and Linux administration, networking, infrastructure as code, database migrations, application workloads, scripting, and monitoring. This role will contribute to business objectives by enabling reliable cloud adoption, improving infrastructure efficiency, reducing operational risk, and supporting sustainable technology delivery.
Software Requirements
Required
8-15+ years of experience in IT infrastructure and cloud engineering.
5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS architecture and migration projects.
Strong knowledge of enterprise data center infrastructure.
Expertise in Windows and Linux administration.
Experience supporting or migrating IBM WebSphere, .NET, Java, and Node.js workloads.
Experience with Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server migrations.
Strong networking knowledge, including:
DNS
Routing
Firewalls
Load balancers
VPN
Direct Connect
Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform.
Familiarity with scripting using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
Experience with monitoring and observability solutions.
Ability to work with current, supported versions of AWS services, operating systems, infrastructure tools, scripting languages, databases, and monitoring platforms.
Preferred
Experience designing hybrid and multi-environment cloud architectures.
Exposure to AWS migration frameworks, landing zones, governance models, and cloud operating models.
Experience with automated infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines.
Familiarity with containerized application workloads and orchestration platforms.
Experience with infrastructure security, resilience, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity.
Exposure to cloud cost management, resource optimization, and sustainable infrastructure practices.
Relevant AWS, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, or automation certifications.
Overall Responsibilities
Design and implement secure, scalable, highly available, and maintainable AWS infrastructure solutions.
Lead or contribute to migration initiatives involving enterprise data center infrastructure, application workloads, and databases.
Assess existing infrastructure and workloads to define migration approaches, dependencies, risks, sequencing, and target-state architecture.
Support the migration of IBM WebSphere, .NET, Java, and Node.js workloads to appropriate AWS environments.
Plan and execute Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server migrations while maintaining data integrity, availability, performance, and operational continuity.
Administer and troubleshoot Windows and Linux environments across enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Design and support network connectivity, including DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, and Direct Connect.
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform.
Create scripts using PowerShell, Bash, or Python to automate infrastructure operations, validation, deployment, and support activities.
Implement monitoring and observability solutions to track system health, performance, availability, capacity, and operational events.
Collaborate with application, database, security, networking, operations, and architecture teams to deliver integrated technology solutions.
Produce technical designs, migration plans, operational procedures, architecture documentation, and implementation records.
Identify and resolve infrastructure, connectivity, migration, performance, and availability issues.
Apply security, compliance, resilience, cost-efficiency, and sustainability considerations throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.
Contribute to strategic objectives by improving cloud adoption, operational reliability, automation, scalability, and infrastructure standardization.
Performance Outcomes
AWS infrastructure and migration solutions meet agreed requirements for security, availability, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
Migration activities are planned and executed with controlled risk, accurate dependencies, effective validation, and minimal disruption.
Windows, Linux, application, database, and network environments remain stable and support business operations.
Infrastructure changes are repeatable, documented, auditable, and increasingly automated through Infrastructure as Code.
Monitoring and observability provide timely visibility into service health, performance, capacity, and potential incidents.
Infrastructure resources are used efficiently, with appropriate attention to operational cost, energy consumption, and sustainable technology practices.
Technical Skills (By Category)
Programming Languages and Scripting
Essential
PowerShell, Bash, or Python scripting experience.
Ability to write scripts for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, operational checks, troubleshooting, deployment, and automation.
Ability to read and interpret application configuration, deployment, and runtime information for Java, .NET, Node.js, and IBM WebSphere workloads.
Preferred
Experience developing reusable automation modules and operational utilities.
Familiarity with scripting standards, version control, testing, error handling, and secure secrets management.
Databases/Data Management
Essential
Experience planning and executing Oracle migrations.
Experience planning and executing Microsoft SQL Server migrations.
Understanding of database migration dependencies, compatibility, performance, backup, recovery, validation, and cutover processes.
Ability to support data integrity, availability, and controlled access during migration and post-migration operations.
Preferred
Experience with database modernization and cloud-based database deployment models.
Familiarity with replication, migration assessment, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and rollback planning.
Exposure to database monitoring and automated validation.
Cloud Technologies
Essential
At least 5 years of hands-on AWS architecture and migration experience.
Experience designing AWS environments for application hosting, networking, storage, security, monitoring, and operational support.
Knowledge of AWS connectivity patterns, including VPN and Direct Connect.
Ability to design solutions that address availability, scalability, resilience, security, performance, and cost considerations.
Understanding of hybrid connectivity between enterprise data centers and AWS environments.
Preferred
Experience with AWS multi-account, landing-zone, governance, backup, disaster recovery, and centralized monitoring approaches.
Familiarity with containers, serverless services, managed services, and cloud-native application patterns.
Experience optimizing cloud resource utilization and supporting sustainable cloud operations.
Frameworks and Libraries
Essential
Experience supporting IBM WebSphere workloads.
Experience supporting .NET, Java, and Node.js application workloads.
Understanding of application hosting, runtime configuration, service dependencies, deployment requirements, and troubleshooting.
Ability to assess workload characteristics and align application requirements with appropriate infrastructure solutions.
Preferred
Experience modernizing or re-platforming legacy application workloads.
Familiarity with application integration, APIs, messaging, service discovery, and distributed application architectures.
Exposure to deployment patterns for containerized and cloud-native applications.
Development Tools and Methodologies
Essential
Experience with CloudFormation and/or Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
Strong understanding of enterprise data center infrastructure and infrastructure migration methods.
Experience with monitoring and observability solutions.
Familiarity with infrastructure design, implementation, testing, change management, release processes, and operational handover.
Ability to create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, migration plans, runbooks, and support procedures.
Experience troubleshooting infrastructure, application, database, network, and performance issues.
Preferred
Experience integrating Infrastructure as Code with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
Familiarity with configuration management, automated compliance checks, policy enforcement, and infrastructure testing.
Exposure to Agile, iterative delivery, or structured infrastructure project methodologies.
Experience with centralized logging, metrics, tracing, alert management, and service dashboards.
Security Protocols
Essential
Understanding of AWS security principles, identity and access management, least-privilege access, encryption, network segmentation, and secure connectivity.
Knowledge of firewall configuration, VPN security, DNS controls, load-balancer security, and Direct Connect security considerations.
Ability to apply secure administration practices across Windows and Linux environments.
Awareness of data protection, vulnerability management, patching, auditability, backup, recovery, and compliance requirements.
Ability to protect credentials, keys, configuration data, and sensitive information used by infrastructure and application workloads.
Preferred
Experience implementing security controls through CloudFormation, Terraform, scripting, and automated validation.
Familiarity with security monitoring, threat detection, vulnerability remediation, and cloud security assessments.
Experience designing resilient and secure hybrid infrastructure environments.
Experience Requirements
8-15+ years of professional experience in IT infrastructure and cloud engineering.
At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing AWS architectures and executing cloud migration initiatives.
Strong experience with enterprise data center infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure environments.
Extensive experience administering Windows and Linux platforms.
Demonstrable experience supporting or migrating IBM WebSphere, .NET, Java, and Node.js workloads.
Experience planning and executing Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server migrations.
Strong practical knowledge of DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, and Direct Connect.
Experience using CloudFormation and/or Terraform to implement Infrastructure as Code.
Experience creating automation scripts with PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions.
Candidates may qualify through equivalent practical experience, provided they can demonstrate comparable cloud architecture, infrastructure migration, automation, troubleshooting, and production support outcomes.
Day-to-Day Activities
Design, review, and implement AWS infrastructure, hybrid connectivity, Infrastructure as Code, and migration solutions for enterprise workloads and databases.
Collaborate with application, database, networking, security, operations, and architecture teams to assess requirements, resolve dependencies, and plan implementation activities.
Deliver architecture documents, migration plans, Terraform or CloudFormation templates, automation scripts, monitoring configurations, validation results, and operational runbooks.
Make technical decisions within the assigned scope, troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, manage migration risks, recommend improvements, and escalate matters requiring broader approval.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant professional experience may also be considered.
8-15+ years of IT infrastructure and cloud experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on AWS architecture and migration experience.
Relevant training in AWS architecture, cloud migration, Windows and Linux administration, networking, Infrastructure as Code, database migration, scripting, or observability is preferred.
AWS, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, automation, or database certifications are preferred but do not replace the required hands-on experience.
Maintain continuous professional development in AWS services, cloud architecture, migration practices, security, automation, observability, resilience, cost management, and sustainable infrastructure operations.
Professional Competencies
Apply critical thinking and structured problem-solving to analyze infrastructure, migration, network, database, application, performance, and availability challenges.
Demonstrate technical leadership, accountability, and effective teamwork when coordinating architecture, migration, operations, application, database, networking, and security activities.
Communicate technical designs, risks, dependencies, decisions, implementation plans, and operational findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Adapt to changing infrastructure requirements, migration priorities, technology standards, operational conditions, and evolving AWS capabilities.
Identify opportunities to improve automation, standardization, resilience, security, monitoring, resource efficiency, and sustainable cloud operations.
Prioritize multiple technical activities, manage delivery timelines, document decisions, follow approved processes, and maintain focus on reliable business outcomes.
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