Senior AWS Cloud Architect AI-Driven Migration Lead (Remote)

Cognizant; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual incentive

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

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 migration of VMware workloads to AWS, leveraging Agentic AI-driven platforms. You will shape the target architecture, governance, and migration strategy while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities span discovery, architecture, automation, modernization, and governance, with emphasis on IaC (Terraform), serverless, containers, and security.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of cloud architecture and migration experience.
• Experience leading VMware to AWS migrations using Agentic AI-driven solutions.
• Ability to define landing zone architectures, governance, and migration strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assess dependencies for AWS migration readiness.
• Define target AWS landing zone architecture and roadmaps.
• Design AI-driven migration workflows and automation tools.
• Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN.
• Define IaC standards with Terraform and integrate CI/CD.
• Mentor architects and collaborate with stakeholders across teams.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

Agentic AI Automation

Terraform

Migration Tools

ECS/EKS

API Gateway

Lambda

Route 53

PrivateLink

AI/ML Tools

Draw.io

MS Visio

CI/CD & Automation

Jenkins

Ansible

ServiceNow

Splunk

Dynatrace

Linux

Windows

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 workloads to AWS, leveraging Agentic AI-driven platforms. You will shape the target architecture, governance, and migration strategy while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities span discovery, architecture, automation, modernization, and governance, with emphasis on IaC (Terraform), serverless, containers, and security.