AWS Migration Platform Engineer

Role & responsibilities

Insight Global is seeking an OBSv2 to AWS S3 Migration Platform Engineer to join a leading financial services client. This individual will lead the design, development, and operation of a secure, scalable migration platform responsible for moving large-scale object data from OBSv2 and other S3-compatible storage platforms into AWS S3. The role combines software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence to deliver enterprise-scale migration capabilities across multiple AWS environments.

Own the end-to-end object storage migration lifecycle from source platforms (OBSv2, Dell ECS, and other S3-compatible storage solutions) into AWS S3.

• Design and develop AWS-based orchestration solutions using Lambda, Step Functions, Fargate, Batch, SQS, DynamoDB, and EventBridge.
• Build and support manifest-driven and dynamic migration workflows including partitioning, batching, task sizing, retry handling, validation, and completion tracking.
• Configure, deploy, and operate high-volume migration tooling utilizing rclone for secure, large-scale object transfers.
• Implement governance controls around bandwidth allocation, throttling, queue management, prioritization, and migration scheduling.
• Develop Python-based automation and serverless services to support migration execution, monitoring, validation, and reporting.
• Create observability solutions using CloudWatch dashboards, metrics, logs, alarms, health checks, and operational telemetry reporting.
• Support AWS networking, security, IAM, and multi-account deployment requirements.
• Produce technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, implementation guides, and executive-ready reporting.
• Provide production support, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and continuous improvement for migration operations.

Preferred candidate profile