Please consider this fully remote 9 month w2 contract for a Migration Engineer focusing on Amazon services (EC2, Cloud formation, S3, CloudWatch, Security groups) W2 only The purpose of this position is to supplement current staff as we migrate our applications from Corporate Datacenters to AWS. This position will partner with our existing team to learn our applications for the purpose of assisting us with a lift and shift migration strategy to move our servers and applications into the cloud. Although the initial phase is to move the applications with minimal re-architecture, there will be a need to adapt current applications and processes to support day 1 cloud and security requirements. Some of our custom core application support tasks will need to be performed, with the primary goal being that enough knowledge of our custom apps is picked up to help with the migration. In many cases we will be moving applications that were built without DevOps Infrastructure as code practices. We will need help working with AWS and our Healthcarersquos Cloud Ops team to evaluate and implement cloud services and best practices within the operations group. The core applications are Linux Red Hat and Microsoft Windows stack including components such as Windows Server, SQLServer, IIS, .NET, JAVA JBOSS, COM, ASP. Operations and monitoring processes are based on Applications such as SolarWinds ORION, Elasticsearch, Consul, JAMS (Batch scheduler), internally developed scripts (PowerShell), PagerDuty (moving to XMatters), System Center Orchestrator, System Center Operations Manager and What's Up Gold. These monitoring applications will not have to be migrated but we will need to mimic current capabilities using AWS based tools and procedures (CloudWatch, Lambda, SNS Topics, etc). Skills required Linux Red Hat Microsoft Windows Administration, PowerShell, Basic JavaScript, Amazon services (EC2, Cloud formation, S3, CloudWatch, Security groups, others), Cloud best practices. Skills Desired Elasticsearch, System Center Orchestrator, General purpose monitoring solution such as Orion, HPOpenview, or open source options, implementing and using code repository CICD pipeline skills. Infrastructure as code concepts and skills (such as PowerShell DSC, CHEF, Cloud Formation, GoCD, etc). Working knowledge of Octopus