DevOps Engineer AWS Migration & Networking Specialist (Contract)
Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Migration & Networking Specialist. This role is focused on executing a well-defined cloud migration plan and resolving complex AWS networking constraints. The architecture and sequencing are already established your responsibility will be to deliver the migration end-to-end with precision and reliability.
This is a hands-on execution role with no application feature development required.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute cross-account migration of containerized services into a target AWS environment with rollback-safe cutover strategies
- Diagnose and resolve VPC IP exhaustion issues through CIDR expansion aligned with governance policies
- Apply all infrastructure changes using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation/CDK); console-based changes are not permitted
- Perform data, credentials, and secrets migration ensuring integrity and security compliance
- Deploy and validate applications in a Kubernetes-based environment
- Troubleshoot networking issues including ENI utilization, routing, and connectivity across accounts
- Ensure migration observability via monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Deliver comprehensive runbooks and reproducible IaC artifacts for long-term maintainability
Required Qualifications
- Strong expertise in AWS core services: VPC, IAM, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, EventBridge, CloudWatch
- Advanced AWS networking knowledge: CIDR management, IPAM, Transit Gateway, secondary CIDR, ENI diagnostics
- Proven experience with cross-account AWS migrations
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and/or CDK using TypeScript)
- Experience deploying and managing containerized workloads with Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with secrets management, OAuth flows, and credential migration
- Solid Linux, scripting, and CLI skills (AWS CLI, Bash, Python, or similar)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, X-Ray, dashboards, alerts)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with large-scale enterprise cloud platforms or internal developer platforms
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional or Advanced Networking Specialty)
- Familiarity with event-driven systems or automation tooling (e.g., bots, messaging integrations)
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL operations, including replication, migration strategies, and connection management
- Experience with fine-grained database access controls (e.g., row-level security)
AWS migration, AWS networking, VPC, CIDR, IPAM, Transit Gateway, cross-account migration, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, TypeScript, Kubernetes, container deployment, IAM, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, EventBridge, CloudWatch, X-Ray, AWS CLI, Bash, Python, ENI diagnostics, IP exhaustion, secrets migration, OAuth, infrastructure as code, IaC, observability, monitoring, dashboards, alerts, PostgreSQL, Aurora, replication, connection pooling, Linux scripting, cloud migration specialist, AWS architect, DevOps engineer
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