AWS Cloud Solutions Lead — Enterprise Migration & DevSecOps

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 165,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance program

10 paid holidays plus PTO

Parental leave and fertility support

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead to design and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions that enable complex migrations, modernization, and platform transformation. You will work with AWS architects and client teams to own architectural outcomes and help build cloud capabilities.

The role blends hands-on delivery with consulting leadership, requiring strong communication and stakeholder engagement across AWS, CDK/TypeScript, DevSecOps, and container

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, with 5+ years on AWS.
• Strong hands-on AWS CDK and TypeScript expertise; authoring L2/L3 constructs.
• Proven enterprise cloud migration and application modernization experience.
• CI/CD and DevSecOps experience with automated security controls.
• Consulting and client-facing delivery experience with architecture leadership.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions aligned with Well‑Architected principles.
• Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives to AWS ECS/Fargate and serverless patterns.
• Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript.
• Engineer secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities with automated gates and IAM policies.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor, leading workshops and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Cloud & infrastructure engineering

AWS expertise

Client-facing delivery

Architecture leadership

DevSecOps

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Tools

AWS CDK

TypeScript

Docker

ECS/Fargate

EKS

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead to design and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions that enable complex migrations, modernization, and platform transformation. You will work with AWS architects and client teams to own architectural outcomes and help build cloud capabilities.

The role blends hands-on delivery with consulting leadership, requiring strong communication and stakeholder engagement across AWS, CDK/TypeScript, DevSecOps, and container