AI-Driven AWS Cloud Migration Architect

Cognizant; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contribution

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations using Agentic AI-driven solutions. You will define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and lead architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation program.

Responsibilities include discovery/assessment, target landing zone design, migration roadmaps, IaC with Terraform, and modernization leveraging ECS/EKS, Lambda, and API Gateway.

Qualifications

• Lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migration initiatives.
• Define cloud architecture, governance standards, and migration roadmaps.
• Experience with IaC and modern cloud tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment for AWS migration readiness.
• Define target landing zone architecture and cost models.
• Design AWS infrastructure using EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, and Lambda.
• Drive AI-driven migration planning, validation, and cutover.
• Provide technical leadership across VMware migration and modernization.
• Enforce IaC standards and CI/CD integration.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

Infrastructure as Code

Containers

Networking

Serverless

AI & Agentic Automation

Architecture Tools

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

AWS MGN

AWS Transform

Terraform

Draw.io

MS Visio

Jenkins

Ansible

ServiceNow

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations using Agentic AI-driven solutions. You will define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and lead architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation program.

Responsibilities include discovery/assessment, target landing zone design, migration roadmaps, IaC with Terraform, and modernization leveraging ECS/EKS, Lambda, and API Gateway.