Remote Senior AWS Cloud Architect - AI-Driven Migration

Cognizant; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Holidays

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan

Long-term Disability

Short-term Disability

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead a high-impact migration of VMware workloads to AWS using AI-driven solutions. You will define landing zones, migration roadmaps, and governance, while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders through a complex transformation.

Responsibilities include discovery, architecture design, modernization via containerization, and implementing IaC with Terraform.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of cloud architecture experience in AWS environments.
• Expertise leading large-scale migration programs with VMware-to-AWS transitions.
• Strong governance, security, and cost-management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment for AWS migration readiness.
• Define target landing zone architecture and migration roadmaps.
• Design AI-driven migration enablement and automation.
• Provide technical leadership for VMware workloads migrating to AWS using MGN and related services.
• Establish IaC standards (Terraform) and deployment patterns.
• Act as trusted advisor to executives and governance boards.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

Migration Tools

AWS MGN

Terraform

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

Networking

Route 53

Transit Gateway

PrivateLink

AWS Transform

Serverless

Lambda

API Gateway

AI & Agentic Automation

Claude LLM

Claude API

Prompt Engineering

AWS Bedrock

Terraform

Draw.io

MS Visio

Monitoring & Observability

Splunk

Dynatrace

Linux

Windows

CI/CD & Automation

Jenkins

Ansible

ServiceNow

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead a high-impact migration of VMware workloads to AWS using AI-driven solutions. You will define landing zones, migration roadmaps, and governance, while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders through a complex transformation.

Responsibilities include discovery, architecture design, modernization via containerization, and implementing IaC with Terraform.