AWS Cloud Solutions Principal & Migration Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life

401(k) plan and contributions

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance program

10 paid holidays plus PTO

Paid parental leave and fertility help

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead to design and deliver enterprise-scale AWS cloud solutions. You will own architectural outcomes, drive modernization, and enable client teams in cloud-native engineering and DevSecOps.

You will lead discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and knowledge transfer, shaping cloud strategy for financial services workloads and complex programs across AWS, CDK/TypeScript, and container platforms.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years on AWS.
• Strong hands-on AWS CDK and TypeScript expertise with IaC patterns.
• Proven enterprise cloud migration and application modernization experience across containers.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions aligned with Well-Architected standards.
• Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives across on-premises and cloud.
• Design and build infrastructure using CDK/TypeScript with cross-account deployments.

Skills

AWS

TypeScript

CDK

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Consulting leadership

Kubernetes

Terraform

ECS/Fargate

EKS

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Tools

AWS CDK

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-scale AWS cloud solutions. You will own architectural outcomes, drive modernization, and enable client teams in cloud-native engineering and DevSecOps.

You will lead discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and knowledge transfer, shaping cloud strategy for financial services workloads and complex programs across AWS, CDK/TypeScript, and container platforms.