Mactores - Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

About the Role: Mactores is an agent-native AWS modernization firm. We exist to ship production systems, retire legacy infrastructure, and measure outcomes. Our delivery is built on Aedeon, an agent platform that absorbs 60-70% of repetitive engagement work like discovery, dependency mapping, validation, and test generation. Forward-deployed engineers own the architecture, judgment, and cutover. This is a senior role in our Application & Database Modernization pillar, leading a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration into production. You will own the judgment calls, architecture tradeoffs, cutover sequencing, and risk decisions. What you will do: - Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure for a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration. - Architect secure, scalable, and highly available AWS environments, including Landing Zones. - Design and implement containerized application platforms on Amazon EKS. - Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. - Define best practices for security, backups, HA, DR, monitoring, and operations. - Build CI/CD pipelines and manage the complete build and release lifecycle. - Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows. - Retire legacy infrastructure and land cloud-native architectures. - Improve and maintain DevOps platforms like Jenkins and observability stacks. - Provide L3-level support for complex infrastructure issues. - Work with stakeholders on technical strategy and long-term architecture. - Mentor engineers and contribute to talent evaluation. What we are looking for: - 6+ years of hands-on DevOps experience with strong cloud infrastructure expertise. - Strong experience in VMware-to-AWS migration projects. - 4+ years of Terraform and CloudFormation experience. - 4+ years in configuration management and systems engineering. - Solid Linux and/or Windows administration background. - Deep understanding of AWS services (VPC, EC2, IAM, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Backup, CloudWatch). - Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, and Docker in production. - Hands-on experience designing HA, DR, security, and backup strategies. - Experience with Landing Zone setup and multi-account strategy. - Proficiency in Git branching and merging strategies. - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and operational tooling. - Proactive problem-solving mindset oriented toward reliability and scalability. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). - AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional). - Exposure to data platforms like Amazon EMR, Redshift, Lake Formation, and SageMaker. - Experience designing cloud architectures at an L3/Architect level.