AWS Cloud Migration Architect – Enterprise & Security Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Pierre (SD); On-site; USD 142,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead a major cloud migration from on-premises environments to AWS. The role emphasizes modernization, security-driven design, and building enterprise-class cloud services within a Cloud Center of Excellence.

You'll guide migration planning, re-platforming, and potential re-architecting while collaborating with SRE and DevOps teams to enforce strong CI/CD, monitoring, and

Qualifications

• Migration of on-premises environments to AWS with clear rationale for chosen path.
• Cloud modernization through re-platforming and OS upgrades in the cloud.
• Strong knowledge of core AWS services, VPC, subnets and networking.
• Security is integral in every design and decision.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate an enterprise-class cloud environment on AWS.
• Lead and automate cloud services with strong engineering practices.
• Architect and optimize workloads for resilience, security, performance and cost.
• Plan migration strategies, avoiding default lift-and-shift where possible.
• Re-platform and modernize during migration, including potential re-architecture.
• Serve as a resource for Cloud Center of Excellence and engineering excellence.
• Support SRE/DevOps with architecture guidance, CI/CD, monitoring and observability.
• Incorporate security from VPC design to deployment pipelines.

Skills

Migration experience

Modernization mindset

AWS architecture

Security-first mindset

DevOps/SRE

Containerization

CI/CD

IaC scripting

Cloud security

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Jenkins

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead a major cloud migration from on-premises environments to AWS. The role emphasizes modernization, security-driven design, and building enterprise-class cloud services within a Cloud Center of Excellence.

You'll guide migration planning, re-platforming, and potential re-architecting while collaborating with SRE and DevOps teams to enforce strong CI/CD, monitoring, and