Remote Senior AWS Migration Architect (AI-Driven)

Cognizant; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays and PTO

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead VMware-to-AWS migrations remotely. You will define strategy, architecture, and governance for enterprise-scale transformations, leveraging AI-enabled migration platforms and AWS services.

Lead teams of architects and engineers, ensure security, cost, and performance, and drive modernization using containerization and cloud-native patterns.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cloud architecture and AWS migrations.
• Experience leading VMware-to-AWS migrations and modernizations.
• Familiarity with Agentic AI-driven migration tools and AI-assisted planning.
• Strong governance, security, and cost-modeling capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migration programs from discovery to cutover.
• Define target landing zone architecture with security and networking standards.
• Drive AI-driven migration planning and automated validation and testing.
• Provide technical leadership across cloud, network, and security domains.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Migrations

AI-driven Migration

Terraform

ECS/EKS

Networking (Route 53, Transit Gateway)

Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway)

IaC Best Practices

Migrations Tools (Matilda, AWS Disc.,

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

AWS MGN

AWS Transform

Terraform

ECS

EKS

Job description

Cognizant seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead VMware-to-AWS migrations remotely. You will define strategy, architecture, and governance for enterprise-scale transformations, leveraging AI-enabled migration platforms and AWS services.

Lead teams of architects and engineers, ensure security, cost, and performance, and drive modernization using containerization and cloud-native patterns.