AWS Cloud Engineer

Required Skills & Experience

Strong hands-on AWS engineering experience with EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC, including building and configuring cloud infrastructure Hands-on Terraform experience writing or modifying infrastructure configurations Experience supporting on-premises/VMware-to-AWS migrations, including workload replatforming or modernization Hands-on VMware and Linux and/or Windows server experience with an understanding of infrastructure and application dependencies Strong AWS networking, security, IAM, encryption, governance, and troubleshooting experience Experience with infrastructure automation/scripting using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar, plus the ability to lead and knowledge-share with other engineers

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Experience with additional AWS services such as CloudWatch, Route 53, RDS, Lambda, Systems Manager, AWS Backup, Direct Connect, ELB, CloudTrail, or ECS/EKS Experience with CI/CD, Git, Docker/Kubernetes, monitoring, disaster recovery, and automated deployment workflows Healthcare or highly regulated enterprise experience, AWS certifications, and experience with large-scale cloud migration programs

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support a large-scale migration of approximately 380 virtual machines and 59 applications from an on-premises VMware environment to AWS. This engineer will assess existing infrastructure and application dependencies, build and configure AWS environments, and help replatform or modernize workloads throughout the migration. The role requires strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC, along with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration. The engineer will troubleshoot complex migration issues, support security and governance requirements, and assist with go-live and post-migration operations. This individual will also serve as a senior technical resource, providing guidance, design reviews, documentation, and knowledge-sharing to engineers who are newer to AWS. The ideal candidate has personally built AWS infrastructure and supported enterprise VMware-to-AWS migrations from assessment through implementation and production support.