Cloud Migration Engineer (AWS & Azure) | 6-Month Initial Contract

FinXL IT Professional Services is seeking a senior Cloud Migration Engineer with dual-cloud expertise to lead a significant data centre exit program. This strategic project involves migrating complex workloads from legacy physical and VMware platforms into enterprise AWS and Azure solutions.

The Opportunity

This role is a high-impact engagement focused on technical execution and institutional capability uplift. You will lead end-to-end migrations while mentoring internal engineering teams to ensure the organization becomes self-sufficient in architecting, deploying, and supporting multi-cloud services.

• Duration: 6 Months Initial (Extensions highly likely)

• Work Arrangement: Hybrid

• Engagement: Through FinXL.com.au

Key Responsibilities

• Multi-Cloud Migrations: Lead discovery, dependency mapping, and workload assessments to execute migrations to both AWS and Azure.

• Migration Strategy: Define and implement rehost (lift-and-shift), replatform, refactor, or rebuild strategies based on workload suitability.

• Database Modernisation: Execute end-to-end migrations of enterprise databases to native services such as Amazon RDS/Aurora and Azure SQL Database/Managed Instance.

• Infrastructure Engineering: Design and support cloud infrastructure including VPCs, Virtual Networks, EC2/VMs, IAM, and security monitoring across both platforms.

• Automation & IaC: Design and implement Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks using Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation to automate provisioning through CI/CD pipelines.

• Governance & Security: Implement secure landing zones, resource tagging, cost management, and network segmentation aligned with enterprise standards.

• Capability Uplift: Lead structured knowledge transfer through workshops, code reviews, and the development of repeatable operational runbooks.

Technical Requirements

Essential Expertise:

• Public Cloud Mastery: Hands-on expertise in both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure infrastructure and PaaS offerings.

• Migration Tooling: Proven experience with migration tools such as AWS DMS and Azure Database Migration Service.

• Database Engineering: Strong understanding of database lifecycle operations (patching, upgrades, HA/DR) and performance tuning.

• Automation Skills: Proficiency in Terraform and automation scripting using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

• Operational Excellence: Experience in incident response, root cause analysis, and documenting complex architecture patterns.

Desirable Skills:

• Containerisation: Experience with cloud-native application patterns.

• Compliance: Background in implementing security controls and encryption for regulated enterprise environments.