Cloud Database Migration Engineer (AWS)

Requirement details:

Role: Cloud Database Migration Engineer (AWS)
Location: Hyderabad / Hybrid
Experience: 5+ Years
Cab Service: Available

About Apexon

Apexon is an AI-first technology services firm that engineers intelligent enterprises. Our interconnected disciplines of Domain & Strategy, Cognitive Architecture, and Harness Engineering guide every engagement, helping clients deliver meaningful business outcomes while applying collective intelligence to confidently scale from early AI strategies to enterprise-grade production systems.

For over three decades, we have helped organizations by leveraging our deep and practical expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics, Digital Engineering, and Experience, combined with our industry knowledge across Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences to create lasting business value. Apexon is backed by Everstone Capital.

Role Overview

Migrate on-premises relational databases to AWS using strong database expertise, cloud architecture skills, and AI-accelerated tooling to deliver secure, reliable, low-downtime migrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess on-premises workloads and plan homogeneous/heterogeneous migrations.
• Convert schemas, stored procedures, and SQL across database engines.
• Design secure AWS targets using RDS, Aurora, and EC2, and execute cutover/rollback plans.
• Automate deployments using Infrastructure as Code and tune performance post-migration.

Required Skills Core

Databases

• Oracle
• SQL Server
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Db2
• Strong SQL and database performance tuning

AWS Migration

• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
• AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT)
• Amazon RDS
• Amazon Aurora
• Amazon EC2
• Amazon S3

Cloud Foundations

• VPC
• IAM
• Networking
• AWS Well-Architected Framework

Security

• AWS KMS
• SSL/TLS encryption
• Least-privilege IAM
• Compliance knowledge, including GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS

Automation

• Terraform / CloudFormation
• Python / Bash / PowerShell
• CloudWatch monitoring

Required Skills AI

• Generative AI / LLMs for translating proprietary SQL dialects, such as Oracle PL/SQL to PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL.
• AI-assisted coding tools for generating, explaining, and debugging migration scripts and infrastructure code.
• ML-based assessment and discovery tools for workload analysis and target sizing recommendations.
• AI-driven performance monitoring for anomaly detection and post-migration optimization.
• Prompt engineering skills for accurate, context-aware AI assistance.
• A strong validation mindset to catch AI-generated errors, including hallucinations and subtle logic bugs.
• Awareness of downstream AI/ML pipelines, data lakes, and vector databases.

Nice to Have

• AWS Certified Database Specialty or Solutions Architect certification.
• Enterprise migration experience.

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Our Perks and Benefits

Our benefits and rewards program has been thoughtfully designed to recognize your skills and contributions, elevate your learning/upskilling experience, and provide care and support for you and your loved ones.

As an Apexon Associate, you get continuous skill-based development, opportunities for career advancemen…