AWS DevOps Engineer (Senior) - Migration Project (VMware to AWS) - remote job

Mactores is hiring a AWS DevOps Engineer (Senior) - Migration Project (VMware to AWS) - a senior role, so the employer expects you to make the calls yourself. The role sits in IT and programming and is fully remote. The company places no restriction on where the candidate lives, so you can apply from anywhere.

The main tools named in the advert are: AWS, Docker. Your CV should show concrete examples of exactly these skills.

The employer did not publish a figure; that is settled at interview. The advert sets no condition on working hours.

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1. A 2-3 sentence summary of the role, in plain English. - Lead a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration project, ensuring the design, implementation, and production cutover of secure, scalable, and highly available AWS environments. - Own the judgment calls, architecture tradeoffs, and risk decisions, while mentoring engineers and shaping long-term infrastructure strategy with customer stakeholders.

2. What you will do: - Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure for a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration. - 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. - Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. - Define and enforce best practices across security, backups, high availability, disaster recovery, 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.

3. What they are looking for: - 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.

4. Terms: - No specific pay mentioned. - No specific location mentioned. - No specific hours mentioned. - Full-time contract.