AWS Cloud Engineer
Minneapolis, MN – Complete Onsite
Full-Time
Job Description:
- We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer with deep hands-on experience in architecting, implementing, and migrating large-scale data solutions on AWS.
- This role focuses on on-premises to AWS data migration, large data storage architectures, and enterprise-grade data transfer solutions using AWS DataSync, S3 replication, and related AWS services.
- The ideal candidate will lead technical design, implementation, and optimization efforts while working closely with architecture, infrastructure, and security teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS data storage architectures for large datasets.
- Configure and manage AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route 53, DataSync, S3 Replication, SageMaker, Glue, ELB, FSx, ECR, and Secrets Manager.
- Lead on-premises to AWS cloud data migration initiatives, including planning, execution, validation, and cutover.
- Architect and configure AWS DataSync for high-volume, reliable data transfers between on-prem systems and AWS.
- Implement and manage Amazon S3 replication (CRR/SRR), lifecycle policies, encryption, and access controls.
- Design and develop machine learning models using AWS SageMaker, integrated with Jupyter Notebook, to enable scalable model training, evaluation, and deployment.
- Design solutions for large data ingestion, archival, backup, and disaster recovery using AWS services.
- Perform hands-on implementation of AWS infrastructure using best practices and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.
- Optimize data transfer performance, storage costs, and data durability.
- Collaborate with application, database, network, and security teams to ensure seamless integrations.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex data migration and storage issues.
- Enforce AWS security, governance, and compliance standards for data protection.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, with at least 4+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
Strong hands-on experience with:
- AWS DataSync
- Amazon S3 (replication, lifecycle policies, versioning, encryption)
- AWS SageMaker
- Large-scale data storage and migration
- Proven experience migrating terabytes to petabytes of data from on-premises environments to AWS.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts (VPN, Direct Connect, bandwidth optimization).
- Experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud architectures.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, or equivalent).
- Solid understanding of IAM, encryption (KMS), and AWS security best practices.
- Ability to architect solutions, not just operate them.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Execute quick POC
- Hands on work on the AWS Cloud services
- Co-ordinate with business and IT stakeholders.
- Strong experience in Relationship Management (with business and end clients) and Team building.
- Onsite-offshore co-ordination
- Strong reporting experience on projects and tasks status. Good presentation skills to management team.
