Remote AWS WorkSpaces Migration Architect

Cognizant; Olympia (WA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an AWS WorkSpaces Migration Architect for a remote/hybrid, client-facing role. You will lead discovery, migration planning, and design of persistent/non-persistent WorkSpaces with a focus on performance, security, and user experience.

This role requires Terraform IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD automation across pipelines and image management. The position emphasizes enterprise image strategy, automation, and resilient, scalable desktop delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience leading discovery, sizing, dependency mapping and migration planning.
• Design migration waves, pilot deployments, cutover strategies and rollback procedures.
• Proven skills in designing AWS WorkSpaces environments (Persistent/Non-Persistent) and desktop pools.
• Ability to define scaling, capacity planning, high availability and DR architectures.
• Experience with FSLogix, User Profile Disks, Profile Containers, Amazon FSx and App Layering.
• Proficient in Terraform, IaC patterns and CloudFormation; strong GitOps mindset.
• CI/CD implementation using Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions; automation of image build/deploy pipelines.
• Experience with Windows 10/11 Enterprise image management and Golden Image strategies.
• Ability to automate compliance checks, validation and release approvals.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and migration activities for large-scale AWS WorkSpaces deployments.
• Design desktop delivery models and optimize user experience and data management.
• Create and manage image strategies, profile persistence and lifecycle processes.
• Build and maintain IaC modules for WorkSpaces, VPC and IAM.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate image build/deploy processes.
• Implement GitOps workflows and ensure release management alignment.

Skills

AWS WorkSpaces

FSLogix

App Volumes

DEM

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitOps

Jenkins

AWS CodePipeline

Git

Windows 10/11 Enterprise

Tools

Terraform (Expert Level)

CloudFormation (Preferred)

Git

Jenkins

AWS CodePipeline

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an AWS WorkSpaces Migration Architect for a remote/hybrid, client-facing role. You will lead discovery, migration planning, and design of persistent/non-persistent WorkSpaces with a focus on performance, security, and user experience.

This role requires Terraform IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD automation across pipelines and image management. The position emphasizes enterprise image strategy, automation, and resilient, scalable desktop delivery.