Remote AWS Migration Architect: AI-Driven Cloud Transformation

Cognizant; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contribution

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead VMware-to-AWS migration programs using Agentic AI-driven platforms. This remote role demands 15+ years of hands-on experience in cloud design, migration strategy, and governance, delivering scalable, secure cloud architectures across enterprise environments.

You will drive end-to-end migrations, establish IaC patterns with Terraform, and guide teams through modernization with ECS/EKS, Lambda, and API Gateways while maintaining AWS

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cloud architecture and migration.
• Experience leading VMware-to-AWS migrations and modernizing workloads.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, security, networking, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment using tools like Matilda, AWS Discovery, and Device42.
• Define target AWS landing zone architecture with security, networking, and governance alignment.
• Lead Agentic AI-driven migration enablement and automation for rapid workloads transfer.
• Provide technical leadership for VMware workloads migration using AWS MGN and related services.
• Define IaC standards (Terraform) and enable CI/CD and automation for cloud operations.
• Mentor architects and engineers, guide governance and migration decision-making.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

AWS MGN

AWS Transform

Terraform

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

Route 53

Transit Gateway

PrivateLink

Amazon EFS

Amazon FSx

Lambda

API Gateway

Claude LLM

Claude API

Claude Code

Prompt Engineering

AWS Bedrock

Draw.io

MS Visio

Jenkins

Ansible

ServiceNow

Splunk

Dynatrace

Linux

Windows

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

AWS MGN

Terraform

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead VMware-to-AWS migration programs using Agentic AI-driven platforms. This remote role demands 15+ years of hands-on experience in cloud design, migration strategy, and governance, delivering scalable, secure cloud architectures across enterprise environments.

You will drive end-to-end migrations, establish IaC patterns with Terraform, and guide teams through modernization with ECS/EKS, Lambda, and API Gateways while maintaining AWS