Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kunai, part of the PwC Network, builds full-stack technology solutions for financial services. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead the migration of a large data platform from Google Cloud Platform to AWS, focusing on data mapping, schema conversion, and building synchronization pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end data migration execution: Drive the full OLAP/OLTP migration from GCP to AWS: data mapping, schema conversion, and hands-on lift-and-shift execution
- Build rock-solid synchronization pipelines: Design and implement data sync pipelines with tight SLAs for latency, consistency, and error recovery. Zero ambiguity on failure modes
- Bring the target architecture to life: Implement the AWS data architecture end to end, including driver personalization engines and production-grade dashboarding solutions
- Migrate historical and time-series data at scale: Execute large-volume historical data migrations with rigorous integrity checks and minimal disruption to live operations
- Build observability from the ground up: Create monitoring, alerting, and reconciliation frameworks that give the team real-time confidence in cross-cloud data fidelity
- Elevate the team around you: Share your expertise freely. Mentor peers, unblock blockers, and raise the technical floor of the whole engagement
- Partner closely with the client: Work shoulder-to-shoulder with stakeholders to nail data governance, access patterns, and analytics requirements
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required
- BigQuery to Redshift, Cloud SQL to Aurora/RDS: you have done this before and have the scars to prove it
- Data mapping, schema conversion, and ETL/ELT pipeline design at enterprise scale
- Dimensional modeling: star and snowflake schemas, done right
- Transactional database optimization and time-series data migration
- CDC (Change Data Capture), real-time replication, latency tuning
- Strong opinions on eventual vs. strong consistency, and when each applies
- Battle-tested error handling and retry strategies
- Redshift, Aurora PostgreSQL, DMS, Glue, Kinesis, MSK (Kafka), Lambda, S3, Lake Formation
- Amazon QuickSight, Grafana, dashboarding frameworks, driver personalization engines
- BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL: you know the terrain you are leaving
- Terraform, CloudFormation, and automated CI/CD for data pipelines
- Cloud certifications are a plus but are not required. Any of the following, or equivalent credentials from a major cloud provider, are valued: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty or Database Specialty, + Google Professional Cloud Architect or Cloud Data Engineer
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements
Company Overview
Kunai is now part of the PwC network: https://www.pwc.com/us/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/kunai.html ----- Kunai was born from experience. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Oakland, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.kunaico.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Kunai, part of the PwC Network has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 19 in 2022, 3 in 2021, 3 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.