Cloud Migration & Modernization Solutions Lead; AWS

Position Overview

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret

Public Trust/Other

Required:

None

Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

US Citizenship

Required:

Yes

Location: Washington DC Metro (USA VA Falls Church)

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

Travel Required: 10-25%

Telecommuting Options: Hybrid

Employee Classification: Regular

Salary Range: $127,500 - $172,500 (based on experience, location and contractual requirements)

We are looking for an AWS Cloud Migration Engineer to lead the technical aspects of Public Sector migration and modernization efforts to the AWS environment throughout the entire lifecycle of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP). The candidate will help Public Sector customers innovate by moving their applications to the cloud and has a track record of leading successful migration projects.

• Assess customer environments and develop the cloud migration strategy and project phases.
• Perform customer portfolio assessments and wave planning.
• Leverage cloud migration tooling (both AWS and/or third party).
• Leverage existing – or develop new – migration patterns.
• Develop target, end‑state architectures.
• Migrate customer workloads to the AWS cloud environment.
• Document AWS deployed solutions and environments.
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to capture engagement intellectual capital and formalize learnings into formal methodologies and templates.
• Mentor other cloud engineers in cloud migration processes and technologies.
• Ensure adherence of target cloud environments with federal frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST 800‑53, RMD, CMMS, FISMA, DoW IL5‑IL7 or HIPAA.

• Undergraduate degree (BA/BS) with five years of practical AWS cloud migration experience or a high school diploma with eight years of practical cloud migration experience.
• Minimum of six successful cloud migrations.
• Experience delivering across all phases of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) methodology.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud migration tooling (native AWS and third party).
• Deep knowledge of AWS services: EC2, EKS, Lambda, EBS, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, Red Shift, Step Functions, and Cloud Watch.
• Experience with Landing Zones (LZ) and Trusted Secure Enclaves (TSE).
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using the AWS SDK, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible, Python, CDK or similar.
• Location:
  
  Washington DC Metro.
• Must have the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• US Citizenship required.

Our total rewards package for all US‑based employees includes medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) plans; paid time off (vacation, sick, personal, holidays, parental, military, bereavement, jury duty); short and long‑term disability, life, accidental death, disability, and travel insurance. We also offer flexible work options and regularly review our benefits to remain competitive.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans.