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

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Migration) to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations remotely, guiding architecture, governance, and execution. You will drive AI-enabled tooling, modernize workloads, and ensure secure, scalable cloud adoption.

With 15+ years of experience, you will coordinate across architecture reviews, security teams, and business stakeholders, delivering on strategy, roadmaps, and validated outcomes in a large enterprise

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cloud architecture and large-scale migrations.
• Proven leadership of architects, engineers, and stakeholders in complex programs.
• Experience with VMware-to-AWS migrations using modern tooling and AI-enabled approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment of servers, apps, and data for AWS migration.
• Define target landing zone and migration roadmaps aligned with security and governance.
• Oversee AI-driven migration enablement and automated validation and cutover.
• Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related services.
• Establish IaC standards with Terraform and integrate CI/CD for cloud operations.
• Mentor teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

AWS MGN

AWS Transform

Terraform

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

Route 53

Transit Gateway

PrivateLink

API Gateway

Lambda

Claude LLM

Claude API

Claude Code

Prompt Engineering

AWS Bedrock

Draw.io

MS Visio

Jenkins

Ansible

ServiceNow

Splunk

Dynatrace

Linux

Windows

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Migration) to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations remotely, guiding architecture, governance, and execution. You will drive AI-enabled tooling, modernize workloads, and ensure secure, scalable cloud adoption.

With 15+ years of experience, you will coordinate across architecture reviews, security teams, and business stakeholders, delivering on strategy, roadmaps, and validated outcomes in a large enterprise