AWS Enterprise Cloud Architect — Migration Leader

Cognizant; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead a major migration from on-premises environments to AWS in a regulated financial services setting. You will join our Cloud Center of Excellence and partner with SRE/DevOps teams to build and automate an enterprise-class cloud environment with strong security practices.

You will guide migration, re-platforming, OS upgrades, and potential re-architecting where beneficial, while integrating security into

Qualifications

• Migration experience moving on-premises environments to AWS and explaining challenges, alternatives, and choices.
• Modernization efforts including re-platforming, OS upgrades in the cloud, or re-architecting workloads for the cloud.
• Strong command of core AWS services with understanding of VPCs and subnet layouts and how AWS networking ties together.
• Security-first approach integrated into designs and recommendations, especially in regulated environments.
• Working knowledge of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, including monitoring and observability.
• Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes and with Amazon ECS.
• CI/CD pipeline management, including Jenkins.
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation; scripting with Python, Bash, PowerShell.
• Practical cloud security experience applying controls in AWS.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or higher.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate an enterprise-class cloud environment on AWS.
• Lead, develop and automate cloud services with deep technical knowledge.
• Architect and optimize cloud workloads for resilience, security, performance and cost.
• Plan and guide migration of on-premises workloads to AWS with appropriate approach.
• Re-platform and modernize as part of migration, upgrading OS and potentially re-architecting apps.
• Contribute to Cloud Center of Excellence and raise engineering excellence.
• Support SRE/DevOps with architecture guidance, CI/CD, monitoring and observability.
• Embed security into every design from VPC layout to deployment pipelines.

Skills

Migration experience

Modernization mindset

AWS architecture

Security first

DevOps/SRE

Containerization

CI/CD

IaC & scripting

Cloud security

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Amazon ECS

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Python

PowerShell

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead a major migration from on-premises environments to AWS in a regulated financial services setting. You will join our Cloud Center of Excellence and partner with SRE/DevOps teams to build and automate an enterprise-class cloud environment with strong security practices.

You will guide migration, re-platforming, OS upgrades, and potential re-architecting where beneficial, while integrating security into