Senior AWS Cloud Architect - AI-Driven Migration Lead Remote

Cognizant; Pierre (SD); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

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

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.