Senior AWS Cloud Architect – AI-Driven Migration Lead

Cognizant; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven solutions. You will define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and oversee researchers and engineers through the transformation program.

You will architect landing zones, roadmaps, and cost models, while driving modernization toward containers on ECS/EKS and implementing IaC with Terraform, CI/CD, and security governance.

Qualifications

• Lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migration using AI-driven platforms.
• Define target AWS landing zone architecture, governance, and cost models.
• Develop automation and IaC pipelines with Terraform and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure discovery and assessment for AWS migration readiness.
• Define and drive migration strategy, roadmaps, and sizing models.
• Architect AWS infrastructure with EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, Lambda.
• Oversee AI-driven migration enablement, validation, and post-migration verification.
• Provide technical leadership during VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related services.
• Drive modernization efforts including containerization to ECS/EKS and security hardening.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Landing Zones

Migration Tools

Terraform

ECS/EKS

Networking AWS

AI/Agentic Automation

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

AWS MGN

AWS Transform

Terraform

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven solutions. You will define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and oversee researchers and engineers through the transformation program.

You will architect landing zones, roadmaps, and cost models, while driving modernization toward containers on ECS/EKS and implementing IaC with Terraform, CI/CD, and security governance.