Cloud Migration & Modernization Solutions Lead; AWS

Job Description

We are looking for an AWS Cloud Migration Engineer to help Public Sector customers innovate by moving their applications to the cloud. The role involves leading 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).

• 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 like FedRAMP, NIST 800‑53, RMD, CMMS, FISMA, DoW IL5‑IL7 or HIPAA.

• Undergraduate degree (BA/BS) with five (5) years of practical AWS cloud migration experience or a high school diploma with eight (8) years of practical cloud migration experience.
• Minimum of six (6) successful cloud migrations.
• Experience delivering across all phases of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) and methodology.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud migration tooling (native AWS and third‑party tooling).
• Deep knowledge of AWS EC2, EKS, Lambda, EBS, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, 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.
• 5+ years of related experience and experience with modern cloud migration tooling.

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

Travel Required: 10‑25%

Telecommuting Options: Hybrid

Work Location: USA, VA Falls Church

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

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans