AWS Solutions Engineering Lead – Enterprise Cloud Migrations

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Olympia (WA); 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"

Learning and development certificates

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Principal to design and deliver enterprise‑scale AWS cloud solutions, enabling complex migration, modernization, and platform transformation.

The role blends hands‑on delivery with consulting leadership, partnering with AWS architects, Cognizant delivery teams, and client engineers to drive architectural outcomes and build sustainable cloud and DevSecOps capabilities.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands‑on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on AWS.
• Strong hands‑on AWS CDK and TypeScript expertise.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud migration and application modernization.
• Strong CI/CD and DevSecOps engineering experience.
• Demonstrated consulting and client‑facing delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions aligned with AWS Well‑Architected principles.
• Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives.
• Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript.
• Engineer secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to client teams.

Skills

Cloud architecture leadership

AWS

Client-facing delivery

DevSecOps practices

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Tools

AWS CDK

TypeScript

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS/Fargate

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Principal to design and deliver enterprise‑scale AWS cloud solutions, enabling complex migration, modernization, and platform transformation.

The role blends hands‑on delivery with consulting leadership, partnering with AWS architects, Cognizant delivery teams, and client engineers to drive architectural outcomes and build sustainable cloud and DevSecOps capabilities.