Remote Senior AWS Cloud Architect - AI-Driven Migration

Cognizant; Dover (DE); On-site; EUR 98,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contribution

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end migration of VMware workloads to AWS, using AI-driven tools and governance standards. You will define landing zones, roadmaps, and modernization plans while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation.

The role emphasizes security, scalability, and operational excellence, with opportunities to advance containerization, IaC, and deployment best practices in a remote setting.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cloud architecture and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment for AWS migration using tools like Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42.
• Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with security and governance standards.
• Develop migration roadmaps, sizing, and cost models for migration waves.
• Lead AI-driven migration enablement using Agentic platforms and AI services.
• Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related services.
• Oversee modernization including containerization to ECS/EKS and security hardening.
• Define IaC standards using Terraform and integrate CI/CD/automation processes.
• Mentor architects and engineers across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

AI & Agentic Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Containers

Networking

Serverless

Architecture Tools

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

AWS MGN

AWS Transform

Terraform

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

Route 53

Transit Gateway

PrivateLink

API Gateway

Lambda

Claude LLM

Claude API

Claude Code

Prompt Engineering

AWS Bedrock

Draw.io

MS Visio

Jenkins

Ansible

ServiceNow

Splunk

Dynatrace

Linux

Windows

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end migration of VMware workloads to AWS, using AI-driven tools and governance standards. You will define landing zones, roadmaps, and modernization plans while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation.

The role emphasizes security, scalability, and operational excellence, with opportunities to advance containerization, IaC, and deployment best practices in a remote setting.