Cloud Migration Engineer

Company Description : About Apexon: Apexon is an AI-first technology services firm that engineers intelligent enterprises. Our interconnected disciplines of Domain & Strategy, Cognitive Architecture, and Harness Engineering guide every engagement, helping clients deliver meaningful business outcomes while applying collective intelligence to confidently scale from early AI strategies to enterprise-grade production systems. For over three decades, we have helped organizations by leveraging our deep and practical expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics, Digital Engineering, and Experience, combined with our industry knowledge across Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences to create lasting business value. Apexon is backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital. We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Cloud Migration Engineer to join and support a high-visibility on-prem compute-to-cloud compute migration project. This role will focus on workload discovery, capacity planning, platform configuration, migration execution, validation, performance tuning, automation, and legacy host decommissioning. The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on engineering experience, a structured delivery mindset, and the ability to collaborate effectively with application, infrastructure, and platform teams to execute migrations safely and at scale. Key Responsibilities - Assess on-prem hosts and perform discovery across business processes, CPU, memory, storage, dependencies, and runtime patterns to determine migration readiness. - Analyze workloads based on functionality, business criticality, resiliency requirements, and interruption tolerance to determine appropriate cloud compute placement. - Plan and provision required cloud infrastructure capacity to support migration, testing, and production execution. - Execute UAT and production parallel testing, compare outcomes, capture evidence, and troubleshoot discrepancies through closure. - Perform performance tuning and optimization to ensure migrated workloads are stable, scalable, efficient, and production ready. - Partner with application engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to finalize migration plans, release approach, validation criteria, and rollback considerations. - Manage release readiness, execute production deployment activities, and complete post release checkout and validation procedures. - Support legacy on-premises host decommissioning after successful migration and validation. - Design, enhance, and implement automation frameworks and AI-assisted solutions to enable repeatable, efficient, large-scale cloud migrations. - Document migration procedures, operational learnings, risks, and best practices to improve the factory execution model. Required Qualifications Basic Qualifications - Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline. - Experience: 4–8 years of hands-on engineering experience in a collaborative, team-based environment. - Programming: Professional proficiency in Python, Java or a similar programming/scripting language. - Systems: Strong Unix/Linux fundamentals with the ability to troubleshoot application, deployment, environment, and runtime issues. - Methodology: Familiarity with SDLC practices, CI/CD delivery models, change management, and Kubernetes-based deployments. Technical Competencies Candidates are not expected to be experts in every tool, but should bring strong hands on experience across several of the following areas: - AWS Services: Hands-on experience with AWS compute and migration patterns, including ECS, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, and related cloud services. - Cloud Migration: Practical understanding of on-prem to cloud migration strategies, workload assessment, testing, cutover, and post-migration validation. - Programming and Automation: Experience with Python, Java, Shell, or similar languages to build scripts, utilities, and automation frameworks. - APIs and Integration: Working knowledge of RESTful APIs, API design, and API Gateway patterns. - CI/CD and Version Control: Strong experience with GitLab, Jenkins, Maven, or similar tools supporting automated build, test, and deployment pipelines. - Batch Scheduling: Experience with batch scheduling platforms such as Autosys, Control-M, Cron, or equivalent workflow orchestration tools. - Observability: Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting using tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, or equivalent platforms. - Automation Excellence: Ability to design repeatable automation and apply AI-assisted engineering approaches to improve migration scale, quality, and efficiency. Core Competencies: - Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills. - Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive work to closure and meet commitments. - Clear written and verbal communication, including concise status updates, structured briefings, and proactive stakeholder management. - Effective collaboration across application, infrastructure, platform, and global engineering teams. - Ability to work constructively across time zones, build alignment, and resolve issues with urgency and professionalism. - Strong integrity, sound judgment, and commitment to good conduct and ethical decision making. - High energy, intellectual curiosity, and willingness to surface risks early, ask thoughtful questions, and continuously improve. Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: Did you know that Apexon has been Certified™ by Great Place To Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, in each of the four regions in which it operates: USA (for the seventh time in 2026), India (for the tenth consecutive time in 2026), the UK(for the fourth time in 2026) and Mexico (for the second time in 2026). Apexon is committed to being an equal opportunity employer and promoting diversity in the workplace. We take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunity for all qualified individuals. Apexon strictly prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind and provides equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to gender, race, color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. You can read about our Job Applicant Privacy policy here Job Applicant Privacy Policy (apexon.com) Our Commitment to Environment: Actively contribute to Apexon's commitment to environmental responsibility by following sustainable practices and supporting ESG initiatives. Our Perks and Benefits: Our benefits and rewards program has been thoughtfully designed to recognize your skills and contributions, elevate your learning/upskilling experience and provide care and support for you and your loved ones. As an Apexon Associate, you get continuous skill-based development, opportunities for career advancement, and access to comprehensive health and well-being benefits and assistance. We also offer: o Group Health Insurance covering family of 4 o Term Insurance and Accident Insurance o Paid Holidays & Earned Leaves o Paid Parental LeaveoLearning & Career Development o Employee Wellness Job Location : Bengaluru, India Disclaimer : If you feel that this is a good match for your skillsets, please submit a current word version of your resume along with a cover letter describing your skills, experience and salary expectations. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). You can read our job applicant privacy policy here . Disclaimer --> If you feel that this is a good match for your skillsets - please send a current word version of your resume along with a cover letter describing your skills, experience and salary expectations. 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