Senior AWS Cloud Architect - AI-Driven Migration Leader

Cognizant; Bismarck (ND); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contribution

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to remotely drive end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations. Lead architecture, strategy, and governance while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation using Agentic AI-enabled workflows.

The role emphasizes cloud scalability, security, and automation with Terraform, AWS services, and modern containerization. Remote work with global collaboration is supported.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cloud architecture and migration.
• Proven leadership in large-scale VMware-to-AWS transformations.
• Deep knowledge of AWS services, security, and governance.
• Hands-on expertise with IaC and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery, assessment, and migration planning for AWS migration.
• Define target landing zones and roadmaps, with cost models.
• Architect AWS solutions leveraging EC2/ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, and API Gateway.
• Drive AI-assisted migration execution and validation.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS MGN

Terraform

ECS

EKS

Networking

Route 53

PrivateLink

API Gateway

Lambda

AI & Automation

Claude LLM

AWS Bedrock

CI/CD

Automation

Containers

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

Draw.io

MS Visio

Jenkins

Ansible

ServiceNow

Splunk

Dynatrace

Linux

Windows

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to remotely drive end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations. Lead architecture, strategy, and governance while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders through the transformation using Agentic AI-enabled workflows.

The role emphasizes cloud scalability, security, and automation with Terraform, AWS services, and modern containerization. Remote work with global collaboration is supported.