AWS DevOps Engineer (Senior) - Migration Project (VMware to AWS)
Mactores
IndiaremotePosted 17 days ago
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Key highlights
- Senior role leading large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration to production
- Forward-deployed model with personal delivery commitment and overage cost absorption
- Uses Aedeon agent platform to absorb repetitive discovery and validation work
- 6+ years DevOps experience required
- 4+ years Terraform and CloudFormation required
- Equal opportunity employer with structured three-stage recruitment process
Role overview
Mactores is an agent-native AWS modernization firm that exists to ship production systems running, legacy retired, and outcomes measured—unlike typical modernization work that stalls in pilots or exceeds budgets. This is a senior role in their Application & Database Modernization pillar, focused on leading a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration from design through production cutover. The role is built around Aedeon, the agent platform that absorbs repetitive discovery and validation work, allowing engineers to focus on architecture, judgment, and cutover commitments with fixed dates. You will architect and implement target infrastructure including Landing Zones, EKS-based container platforms, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation, and production-grade HA/DR/security/backup strategies, while mentoring engineers and shaping long-term infrastructure strategy.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure for a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration — from discovery through production cutover.
- Architect and build secure, scalable, and highly available AWS environments, including Landing Zones that follow AWS best practices.
- Design and implement containerized application platforms on Amazon EKS; exposure to ECS is a plus.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code 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.
- Retire legacy infrastructure and land cloud-native architectures in its place.
- Improve and maintain DevOps platforms: Jenkins, Git repositories, monitoring, and observability stacks.
- Provide L3-level support for complex infrastructure and platform issues.
- Work with stakeholders on technical strategy and long-term architecture.
- Mentor engineers, contribute to talent evaluation, and support team development.
Requirements
- 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 a strong understanding of branching and merging strategies.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational tooling.
- A problem-solving mindset that's proactive and oriented toward reliability, performance, and scalability.
Nice to have
- Experience across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional.
- Exposure to data platforms such as Amazon EMR, Redshift, Lake Formation, and SageMaker.
- Experience designing cloud architectures at an L3/Architect level.
Additional details
- Mactores runs a forward-deployed model where senior engineers embed with the customer's team, own outcomes from discovery through production, and carry delivery commitment personally with fixed dates; Mactores absorbs overage cost for delays inside their control.
- Aedeon absorbs discovery, dependency-mapping, and validation work that would otherwise consume a project's first two quarters.
- On a migration this size, the division of labor between Aedeon (scale) and engineers (judgment) is the difference between a cutover and a slide about a cutover.
- The culture is casual, moves fast, and measures itself by what ships.
- Mactores has 10 Core Leadership Principles honoring Decision-making, Leadership, Collaboration, and Curiosity.
- The recruitment process has three stages: Pre-Employment Assessment, Managerial Interview (multiple 30-minute to 1-hour discussions), and HR Discussion (30 minutes).
- Mactores provides equal opportunities and does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local laws.
- Applicants are encouraged to answer as many questions as possible with the application to accelerate the hiring process.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.