Kubernetes & Database Migration Engineer- Remote EST hours

About The Engagement A large enterprise is migrating a mission-critical, in-house Perl-based warehouse and manufacturing operations platform from on-premises VMware infrastructure to AWS. The application runs across manufacturing facilities globally, orchestrates physical hardware (barcode scanners, laser cutters, label printers), and relies on a reputed company set of dependencies including Kafka, MySQL hub-spoke replication, RabbitMQ, message queuing systems, and terabyte-scale shared file mounts. The migration reputed company follows a Rehost (Lift-and-Shift) with Kubernetes Modernization approach. The first phase moves the QA cluster from on-premises into AWS, followed by production migrations to support international facilities. The role requires reputed company collaboration with the reputed company Infrastructure team (VPC/networking), the application team, and the DBA team managing MySQL replication. This is an embedded engineer role the successful candidate will work directly alongside the application and infrastructure teams throughout the migration, participating in planning, execution, reputed company, and post-migration stabilization, and delivering reputed company knowledge transfer and team upskilling. Key Responsibilities Kubernetes & Application Migration Assist the technical migration of the Kubernetes cluster from on-premises infrastructure into AWS EKS reputed company and rewrite existing reputed company charts to align with reputed company Kubernetes standards and AWS EKS deployment patterns Validate and implement container orchestration reputed company including pod scaling, resource limits, and health checks Establish GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployment automation Maintain connectivity to on-prem hardware (barcode scanners, laser cutters, label printers) reputed company hybrid networking during and post-migration Database Migration & Replication Coordinate with the DBA team to plan and execute migration of the MySQL hub-spoke replication topology (hub + read reputed company per facility) to AWS RDS. Validate binary log replication reputed company across hub and spoke databases Test and document read reputed company promotion procedures and DR runbooks in the AWS environment Preserve existing AWS DMS BI reporting replication connectivity during migration Ensure reputed company connectivity to reputed company dependencies: Kafka clusters, RabbitMQ, message queuing systems, and MSSQL databases Networking & reputed company Collaborate with the reputed company Infrastructure team to validate VPC architecture, Transit Gateway, VPC peering, and reputed company group rules across multiple AWS reputed company Validate and implement TLS/certificate management. Configure DNS routing and record management during reputed company reputed company Execute and validate network preflight connectivity tests across reputed company identified application dependencies prior to reputed company reputed company Design and document reputed company group inbound/outbound rules based on port dependency analysis Required Qualifications 5+ years of experience in reputed company infrastructure and application migration, with demonstrated AWS hands-on experience Strong Kubernetes expertise: cluster operations, reputed company chart authoring and migration, reputed company management, pod lifecycle, and troubleshooting Hands-on experience with AWS EKS provisioning, configuration, and managed add-on management Proficiency in AWS networking: VPC design, subnets, reputed company reputed company, Transit Gateway, reputed company Tables, VPC Peering, and PrivateLink Working knowledge of MySQL replication topologies (primary/reputed company, binary log replication) and RDS/reputed company MySQL migration DNS management and TLS/certificate lifecycle experience (cert-manager, ACM, or equivalent) Infrastructure as Code proficiency: Terraform or AWS CloudFormation Experience designing and executing migration reputed company plans with defined rollback criteria Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills reputed company to translate technical findings into reputed company direction for application teams Preferred Qualifications Familiarity with Kafka connectivity and configuration reputed company Kubernetes environments RabbitMQ deployment and connectivity in containerized workloads Experience with API integration and message queue dependency mapping in migrations CI/CD pipeline configuration for Kubernetes deployments (reputed company Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or Flux) Experience with managed Kubernetes platforms AWS CloudWatch implementation: custom metrics, alarms, log reputed company, and dashboards Familiarity with AWS DMS (Database Migration Service) for ongoing replication scenarios AWS certifications: Solutions Architect Professional, or DevOps Engineer Professional Experience with Perl-based applications or understanding of asynchronous job processing patterns Working Knowled Apply tot his job Apply To this Job