Remote Senior AWS Cloud Architect | AI-Driven Migration

Cognizant; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations using Agentic AI-driven solutions. You will define cloud architecture, governance standards, and execution strategies while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation.

Responsibilities include discovery, architecture design, AI-enabled tooling, and modernization efforts with ECS/EKS, MGN, and related services. Strong leadership and security focus required.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cloud architecture and migrations.
• Proven expertise in AWS-native services and enterprise governance.
• Experience leading AI-driven migration initiatives and modernization.
• Strong knowledge of landing zones, security, and cost modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment for AWS migration readiness.
• Define target AWS landing zone architecture and roadmaps.
• Design infrastructure using EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, API Gateway, Lambda.
• Oversee AI-driven migration execution and validation activities.
• Provide technical leadership and governance across teams.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

AI & Agentic Automation

Terraform

EC2

ECS/EKS

Networking (Route 53)

Serverless (Lambda)

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Security & Governance

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

Terraform (IaC)

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations using Agentic AI-driven solutions. You will define cloud architecture, governance standards, and execution strategies while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation.

Responsibilities include discovery, architecture design, AI-enabled tooling, and modernization efforts with ECS/EKS, MGN, and related services. Strong leadership and security focus required.