Senior AWS Cloud Architect

Cognizant

Nashville (TN)

Remote

USD 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

33 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contribution

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions. You will define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and provide leadership across architects, engineers, and stakeholders.

The role covers AWS landing zone design, migration roadmaps, and modernization efforts including containers with ECS/EKS, serverless patterns with Lambda, and IaC with Terraform.

Qualifications

15+ years of cloud architecture and migration leadership.
Experience with VMware to AWS migrations and MGN.
Proficiency in Terraform, AWS services, and AI/machine learning-assisted tooling.
Ability to mentor architects and collaborate with executives.

Responsibilities

Lead infrastructure and application discovery for AWS migration readiness.
Define target AWS landing zone architecture and governance standards.
Develop migration roadmaps, waves, sizing, and cost models.
Design infrastructure using EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, Lambda.
Lead migration execution with Agentic AI platforms powered by Claude and AWS AI services.
Oversee modernization through containerization and migration to ECS/EKS, as appropriate.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS MGN

Terraform

Containers (ECS/EKS)

Networking (Route 53, Transit Gateway)

Serverless (Lambda)

AI-driven migration

Governance & Security

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

Claude

Claude API

Claude Code

AWS Bedrock

Job description

Senior AWS Cloud Architect

Location: Remote

Experience: 15+ years

Role Summary

Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions. Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and technical execution while providing leadership to architects, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the transformation program.

Key Responsibilities

1. Discovery & Assessment

Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42, or similar platforms.
Assess servers, applications, databases, storage, and network dependencies for AWS migration readiness.
Analyze infrastructure inventory, utilization, business criticality, risks, and remediation requirements.
Perform migration strategy assessment using the AWS 6R framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, Retain).

2. AWS Architecture & Migration Strategy

Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards.
Develop migration roadmaps, migration waves, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
Design AWS infrastructure solutions leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, and Lambda.
Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.

3. Agentic AI-Driven Migration Enablement

Lead migration execution using Agentic AI platforms powered by Claude and AWS AI services.
Design and implement AI agents, skills, workflows, and automation tools to accelerate migration activities.
Utilize AI-driven dependency analysis and business prioritization to optimize migration wave planning.
Drive automated migration validation, testing, cutover, and post-migration verification activities.

4. Migration Execution & Modernization

Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related migration services.
Lead modernization initiatives including containerization and migration to ECS or EKS where appropriate.
Oversee Windows and Linux upgrades, security hardening, patching, and compliance remediation for migrated workloads.
Resolve complex migration challenges and ensure successful workload transition to AWS.

5. Cloud Engineering Standards

Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
Establish cloud architecture patterns, reusable modules, migration standards, and deployment best practices.
Integrate CI/CD, automation, and configuration management tools to support cloud operations.

6. Governance & Leadership

Act as trusted advisor to client executives, technical leadership, and Architecture Review Boards.
Lead architecture governance, technical reviews, risk management, and migration decision-making.
Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, security, and business stakeholders.
Mentor architects and engineering teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.

Core Skills