Remote Senior AWS Cloud Architect - AI-Driven Migration

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Migration) to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations using Agentic AI-driven solutions. You will define the target landing zone, roadmaps, and cost models while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation.

Responsibilities include governance, security hardening, and modernization to ECS/EKS, with a focus on automation, IaC, and leadership in complex cloud programs.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cloud architecture and migration leadership.
• Proven track record guiding VMware-based datacenter migrations to AWS.
• Strong governance, security, cost modeling, and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment for migration readiness across servers, apps, and databases.
• Define target landing zone, roadmaps, sizing, and cost models for AWS migration.
• Architect AI-driven migration enablement and automation workflows.
• Direct migration execution with AWS MGN and modernization to ECS/EKS as needed.
• Enforce IaC standards with Terraform and integrate CI/CD pipelines.
• Act as trusted advisor to executives and govern migration decisions.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

AI & Automation

Terraform

Containers (ECS/EKS)

Security & Governance

IaC

CI/CD

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 (Migration) to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations using Agentic AI-driven solutions. You will define the target landing zone, roadmaps, and cost models while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation.

Responsibilities include governance, security hardening, and modernization to ECS/EKS, with a focus on automation, IaC, and leadership in complex cloud programs.