Senior AWS Cloud Architect

Cognizant

Pierre (SD)

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 + PTO

401(k) plan and contribution

Disability (Long/Short-Term)

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead VMware-to-AWS migrations using Agentic AI platforms and AWS services. You will define target architectures, roadmaps, and governance while mentoring architects and engineers across cloud, security, and networking domains.

The role emphasizes AI-driven analysis, automated validation, and modernization including containerization to ECS/EKS, with strong focus on security and operational excellence.

Qualifications

Lead end-to-end migration of VMware workloads to AWS using AI-driven tools.
Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance and execution.
Mentor architects, engineers and stakeholders through the transformation.

Responsibilities

Discovery & assessment of infrastructure and application dependencies.
Define target AWS landing zone and migration roadmaps.
Lead AI-driven migration enablement and automation.
Drive modernization including containerization to ECS/EKS and security hardening.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Migration Strategy

AI-Driven Migration

Leadership

Governance & Security

Cloud Networking

Terraform / IaC

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

Terraform

AWS MGN

ECS / EKS

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