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Senior CloudOps Engineer

Surge IT
Alexandria, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/14/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/12/2026
We are looking for a Senior CloudOps Engineer to work in a team involved in the migration from a monolithic system to a modern, cloud-native microservices platform with domain databases. You will work closely with Solutions Architects, DevOps, CloudOps, and the Database teams to build-out, optimize, secure, highly available data platforms infrastructure with an affinity to RDS databases and participate in database migration.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Solutions Architects, DevOps, and CloudOps teams
  • Write and maintain Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure provisioning
  • Maintain and enhance Github CI/CD pipelines
  • Provision and deploy databases on AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL
  • Troubleshoot and resolve database and MS AD SSO connectivity issues
  • Schema conversion and data migration from legacy databases (e.g., Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server) to PostgreSQL
  • Ensure data integrity, performance, and reliability during and after migration

Required Skills

  • Strong understanding of AWS networking, VPC, subnets, route tables, security groups
  • Experience with infrastructureascode (Terraform & CloudFormation)
  • Experience managing IAM roles, policies, and leastprivilege access
  • Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices, Github, and Github Actions
  • Experience with AWS Secrets Manager for credential management
  • Monitoring/troubleshooting using Performance Insights and CloudWatch metrics
  • Knowledge of encryption using AWS KMS (at rest and in transit)
  • Experience with secure database access, MS AD, and authentication mechanisms
  • Experience configuring MultiAZ, Read Replicas, and crossregion replication

Preferred Skills

  • Experience or involvement in RDS migrations from legacy relational databases
  • Familiarity w/AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) & schema conversion (SCT)
  • Some database administration experience (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server)
  • Familiarity with AWS RDS PostgreSQL or Aurora
  • Familiarity with backup, restore, snapshots, and disaster recovery strategies
  • Proficiency in Python and familiar with unix scripting such as bash
  • AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, CloudOps or DevOps Engineer)

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