Staff Cloud Engineer at Sandisk — Milpitas, CA

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.

Essential Duties and 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

Required:

• 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

Preferred:

• 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

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 10/21/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including 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, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.