AWS Enterprise Cloud Architect — Migration & Security

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

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead cloud migration projects from on-premises to AWS. This role focuses on moving environments to the cloud and modernizing legacy workloads in a regulated financial services setting.

As a member of the Cloud Center of Excellence, you will guide migrations, design secure, scalable architectures, and partner with SRE/DevOps to automate deployments using IaC, CI/CD, and

Qualifications

• Migration experience moving on-premises environments to AWS.
• Re-platformed or upgraded operating systems in the cloud or re-architected workloads for cloud value.
• Strong command of core AWS services and VPC/subnet design.
• Security-first design in regulated environments.
• Experience with DevOps practices and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Scripting languages: Python, Bash, PowerShell and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate an enterprise-class cloud environment on AWS.
• Lead, develop and automate cloud services.
• Architect and optimize workloads for resilience, security, performance and cost.
• Plan and guide the migration of on-premises workloads to AWS with the right approach.
• Re-platform and modernize as part of migration.
• Support SRE and DevOps with architecture guidance, CI/CD, monitoring and observability.
• Build security into every design from VPC layout to deployment pipelines.

Skills

Migration experience

Modernization mindset

AWS architecture

Security first

DevOps and SRE

Containerization

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Cloud security

Cloud certifications

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead cloud migration projects from on-premises to AWS. This role focuses on moving environments to the cloud and modernizing legacy workloads in a regulated financial services setting.

As a member of the Cloud Center of Excellence, you will guide migrations, design secure, scalable architectures, and partner with SRE/DevOps to automate deployments using IaC, CI/CD, and