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# AWS DevOps Engineer (Senior) – Migration Project (VMware to AWS)

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## About this role.

AI SummaryThis senior DevOps and infrastructure role leads a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration through production cutover. The engineer will architect AWS Landing Zones, EKS platforms, multi-account governance, infrastructure as code, and resilient security, backup, HA, and DR capabilities. The role also owns CI/CD, configuration management, observability, L3 escalation support, and automation across the delivery lifecycle. It requires strong customer-facing technical judgment, ownership of migration risks and sequencing, and mentorship of other engineers. Success is measured by delivering a production-ready AWS estate and retiring legacy VMware infrastructure on committed timelines.

## Role DNA

A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description.

### Job Complexity

5/5EasyHard

### Pace & Pressure

5/5RelaxedFast-paced

### Autonomy Level

5/5GuidedFull ownership

### Communication Load

5/5IndependentCollaborative

AI insightThis is a high-complexity migration leadership role involving production cutovers, undocumented dependencies, cloud architecture decisions, and strict delivery commitments. The engineer must independently balance technical risk, stakeholder expectations, security, resilience, and operational continuity.

## Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job medianMarket rate$155,000US market range$130k–$185k0$204k

AI insightNo actual compensation was disclosed, so these are estimated US-market annual base-salary figures for a senior AWS DevOps engineer leading enterprise VMware-to-AWS migrations. Actual pay can vary materially by employer, work location, consulting expectations, certifications, and whether incentive or equity compensation is included.

## Core skills

Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity.

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Sample interview questionsHow would you approach planning a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration with incomplete dependency documentation?I would begin with structured discovery using inventory data, network-flow analysis, application-owner interviews, and dependency-mapping tools. I would group workloads into migration waves based on criticality, dependencies, risk, and migration pattern, then validate each wave through rehearsals and explicit rollback criteria before production cutover.

What are the core components of an AWS Landing Zone for an enterprise migration?

A strong Landing Zone includes a multi-account structure, identity and access management, centralized logging, security monitoring, network segmentation, guardrails, encryption standards, and billing governance. I would implement it through reusable IaC modules and align account boundaries with workload, environment, and compliance needs.

How do you design high availability and disaster recovery for applications moving from VMware to AWS?

I start by defining RTO and RPO requirements with stakeholders, then select an appropriate resilience pattern for each workload. Depending on the requirement, this can include Multi-AZ deployments, backups and tested restores, cross-region replication, automated failover, immutable infrastructure, and regular DR exercises.

How would you create a secure CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure and application deployments?

I would use Git-based workflows with protected branches, peer review, automated tests, policy checks, artifact versioning, and least-privilege deployment roles. For infrastructure, I would require Terraform plan review, security scanning, controlled approvals for production, and post-deployment validation and observability.

Describe how you would manage a high-risk production cutover with a fixed customer deadline.

I would establish a detailed runbook with owners, timing, prerequisites, communication channels, success metrics, decision checkpoints, and a tested rollback plan. Before cutover, I would run rehearsals, resolve readiness gaps, freeze nonessential changes, and ensure business and technical stakeholders understand both escalation paths and go/no-go criteria.

Mactores is the agent-native AWS modernization firm. Most modernization work doesn’t ship, it stalls in pilots, slips a year, or lands at three times the budget. We exist to ship it: production systems running, legacy retired, outcomes measured. Our delivery is built on Aedeon, the agent platform built by Mactores’ founders’ sister company, which absorbs the repetitive 60–70% of engagement work, discovery, dependency mapping, validation, test generation, that traditional consulting bills human hours against. Forward-deployed engineers own the rest: architecture, judgment, and cutover, on dates we commit to in the contract.

This is a senior role in our Application & Database Modernization pillar, on a specific mission: leading a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration and landing it in production. VMware estates are exactly where modernization programs go to stall — sprawling dependency graphs, undocumented workloads, and a hypervisor bill that grows while the migration deck gathers dust. Our customers need that estate moved, cut over, and retired, on a date in the contract.

You’ll lead the design and implementation of the target infrastructure: Landing Zones built to AWS best practices, EKS-based container platforms, Infrastructure as Code across the stack with Terraform and CloudFormation, and HA, DR, security, and backup strategies that hold up in production. Aedeon absorbs the discovery, dependency-mapping, and validation grind that would otherwise consume the project’s first two quarters. You own the judgment calls, architecture tradeoffs, cutover sequencing, risk decisions and you carry them through to production. You’ll also mentor engineers and shape long-term infrastructure strategy with customer stakeholders. If you want your migration experience to end in retired VMware clusters rather than revised project plans, this is the role.

### What you will do?

* Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure for a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration — from discovery through production cutover.
* 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; exposure to ECS is a plus.
* Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
* Define and enforce best practices across security, backups, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), 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.

### What are we 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.

### You will be preferred if

* Experience across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
* AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional.
* Exposure to data platforms such as Amazon EMR, Redshift, Lake Formation, and SageMaker.
* Experience designing cloud architectures at an L3/Architect level.

### How we work?

We run a forward-deployed model. Senior engineers embed with the customer’s team, own outcomes from discovery through production, and carry the delivery commitment personally fixed dates, with Mactores absorbing overage cost for delays inside our control. Aedeon absorbs scale; you absorb judgment; the contract absorbs risk. On a migration this size, that division of labor is the difference between a cutover and a slide about a cutover. The culture is casual, moves fast, and measures itself by what ships.

### Compensation

### Additional Information

Life at Mactores

We care about creating a culture that makes a real difference in the lives of every Mactorian. Our 10 Core Leadership Principles that honor Decision-making, Leadership, Collaboration, and Curiosity drive how we work.

1. Be one step ahead

2. Deliver the best

3. Be bold

4. Pay attention to the detail

5. Enjoy the challenge

6. Be curious and take action

7. Take leadership

8. Own it

9. Deliver value

10. Be collaborative

We would like you to read more details about the work culture on [https://mactores.com/careers](https://mactores.com/careers)

The Path to Joining the Mactores Team

At Mactores, our recruitment process is structured around three distinct stages:

Pre-Employment Assessment:

A series of evaluations of your technical proficiency and suitability for the role.

Managerial Interview: The hiring manager engages with you in multiple discussions, 30 minutes to an hour each, covering technical skills, hands-on experience, leadership potential, and communication.

HR Discussion: During this 30-minute session, you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the offer and next steps with a member of the HR team.

Mactores provides equal opportunities in all employment practices. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local laws. This applies to every part of the employment relationship, recruitment, compensation, promotions, transfers, disciplinary action, layoff, training, and social and recreational programs.

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