Sandisk
Staff Cloud Engineer
Milpitas, CA, United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$10k-$15kDetected 15 hours ago
PythonBashGitAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsDevOpsPlatform EngineeringCybersecurityAgileStakeholder ManagementSupply ChainDNSCommunicationArgo CD
About the role
- With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we're living in and that we have the power to shape.
- Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward.
Responsibilities
- Implement and execute standardized migration patterns to AWS, including rehost, replatform, redeploy, refactor.
- Design and operate an application migration factory focused on:
- 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.
- Build and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation and containerized application deployment.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) modules and reusable deployment templates.
- Coordinate with AWS specialists and partners to accelerate migration execution.
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
- Experience managing self-hosted CI/CD runners (GitHub Actions or similar) in both on-premises and cloud environments
- 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)
- Experience designing and managing multi-environment deployments (dev, test, prod) with proper isolation and promotion workflows
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, vendors, and cloud providers
Nice to have
- 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
Skills
- These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations.
- Automation pipelines
- Runbooks and deployment frameworks
- Cutover orchestration and execution
Compensation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- 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.
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