Staff Cloud Engineer

Sandisk • Milpitas, CA

2d • $131,300 - $223,200 • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Cloud Engineer to support enterprise-scale application migrations to the cloud with a primary focus on AWS. This role focuses on hands-on engineering execution of migration patterns, platform components, and automation frameworks, with a strong emphasis on containerization and modern deployment models to enable scalable, repeatable migrations from on-premises environments to AWS. You will partner with platform engineering, security, and external vendors to build, deploy, and operate cloud-native infrastructure and application platforms, with a focus on container-first deployment patterns and Kubernetes-based architectures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 10–15+ years of total experience, including 7+ years in cloud engineering or migration roles
• Deep hands-on expertise in AWS architecture and services (core requirement)
• Proven experience with large-scale application migrations to AWS
• Hands-on experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions, including building CI/CD pipelines for cloud and hybrid environments
• Experience managing self-hosted CI/CD runners (GitHub Actions or similar) in both on-premises and cloud environments
• Deep understanding of IAM, cross-account access, and identity federation (AWS IAM Identity Center, SSO)
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (CloudWatch, logging, metrics, tracing) to support migration validation and post-migration troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience with database and data migration strategies (replication, backup/restore, minimal downtime cutover)
• Experience working within enterprise cloud landing zones and guardrails (SCPs, account structure, security controls)
• Strong troubleshooting skills in hybrid networking, including routing, DNS resolution, and connectivity between on-premises and cloud environments
• Experience designing and managing multi-environment deployments (dev, test, prod) with proper isolation and promotion workflows
• Experience working with enterprise artifact repositories (e.g., JFrog Artifactory) for dependency management, build artifacts, and secure package distribution
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, vendors, and cloud providers
• Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices, including tagging strategies and cost visibility during migration
• Experience with migration tooling, such as AWS Application Migration Service, DMS, or equivalent tools
• Experience with GitOps deployment models, such as ArgoCD, and environment-based deployment strategies
• AWS certifications, such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Kubernetes-related certifications
• Experience working in large-scale transformation programs or Agile delivery models

Responsibilities

• Implement and execute standardized migration patterns to AWS, including rehost, replatform, redeploy, refactor.
• Design and operate an application migration factory focused on: Automation pipelines, Runbooks and deployment frameworks, Cutover orchestration and execution.
• Build and implement tooling and automation frameworks to support high-scale migrations.
• Drive adoption of container-first strategies, including VM-to-container migration and Kubernetes (EKS) deployments.
• Define and implement technical deployment models, including: VM rehosting and replatforming patterns, Containerized application deployment models, Kubernetes-based microservices architectures.
• Configure and deploy AWS infrastructure and platform services, including: Compute, storage, and networking services such as VPCs, load balancers, and DNS; Databases and middleware platforms; Container platforms, container registries, and runtime environments, including EKS.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation and containerized application deployment.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) modules and reusable deployment templates.
• Integrate automation and scripting using Python and Bash to streamline provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Coordinate with AWS specialists and partners to accelerate migration execution.
• Execute data migration, cutover, validation, and post-migration stabilization activities.
• Ensure implementations meet security, compliance, reliability, and cost optimization requirements.
• Align implementations with enterprise guardrails, including IaC, policy-as-code, and standardized pipelines.

Benefits

• paid vacation time
• paid sick leave
• medical/dental/vision insurance
• life, accident and disability insurance
• tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• employee assistance program
• other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• tuition reimbursement
• transit
• the Applause Program
• employee stock purchase plan
• Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program (restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior