Senior AWS Cloud Architect - AI-Driven Migration

Cognizant; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays

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 end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations leveraging Agentic AI-driven solutions. You will define the cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and guide architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation program.

Responsibilities include discovery, architecture design, migration roadmaps, AI-enabled automation, and modernization to ECS/EKS with MGN.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of cloud architecture experience.
• Experience leading VMware-to-AWS migrations using modern tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure and application discovery for AWS migration readiness.
• Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with security and governance standards.
• Develop migration roadmaps, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
• Design AI-driven migration tools, workflows, and automation to accelerate migrations.
• Lead migration execution using AWS MGN and related services; oversee modernization to ECS/EKS.
• Define IaC standards with Terraform and integrate CI/CD/automation for cloud operations.
• Mentor architects and engineers; collaborate with stakeholders across teams.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

AI & Agentic Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Containers

Networking

Serverless

Tools

Terraform

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

AWS MGN

AWS Transform

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

Route 53

Transit Gateway

PrivateLink

Amazon EFS

Amazon FSx

Lambda

API Gateway

Claude LLM

Claude API

Claude Code

AWS Bedrock

Draw.io

MS Visio

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations leveraging Agentic AI-driven solutions. You will define the cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and guide architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation program.

Responsibilities include discovery, architecture design, migration roadmaps, AI-enabled automation, and modernization to ECS/EKS with MGN.