Remote Senior AWS Cloud Architect — AI-Driven VMware Migration

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contribution

Paid holidays and PTO

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 cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and drive technical execution across architects, engineers, and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled migration, IaC with Terraform, and modernizing workloads to ECS/EKS, with strong leadership and governance responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cloud architecture, migration strategy, and leadership roles.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale VMware-to-AWS migrations with governance and security baked in.
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD, and AI-enabled automation in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery, assessment, and migration strategy for AWS migrations using established frameworks.
• Define target AWS landing zones, roadmaps, sizing, and cost models.
• Drive migration execution, validation, and post-migration verification with AI-assisted tooling.
• Provide technical leadership for VMware migrations using AWS MGN and related services.
• Guide modernization to ECS/EKS, containerization, and serverless patterns.
• Establish governance, patterns, and deployment best practices.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

Migration Tools

Terraform

Containers

Networking

Storage

Serverless

AI & Agentic Automation

Architecture Tools

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

ServiceNow

Splunk

Dynatrace

Linux

Windows

Terraform

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 cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and drive technical execution across architects, engineers, and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled migration, IaC with Terraform, and modernizing workloads to ECS/EKS, with strong leadership and governance responsibilities.