Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Migration)

Cognizant

Augusta (ME)

Remote

USD 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

4 days ago

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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

Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Migration)

Location: Remote

Experience: 15+ years

Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

Role Summary

Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions. Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and technical execution while providing leadership to architects, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the transformation program.

Key Responsibilities

1. Discovery & Assessment

Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42, or similar platforms.
Assess servers, applications, databases, storage, and network dependencies for AWS migration readiness.
Analyze infrastructure inventory, utilization, business criticality, risks, and remediation requirements.
Perform migration strategy assessment using the AWS 6R framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, Retain).

2. AWS Architecture & Migration Strategy

Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards.
Develop migration roadmaps, migration waves, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
Design AWS infrastructure solutions leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, and Lambda.
Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.

3. Agentic AI-Driven Migration Enablement

Lead migration execution using Agentic AI platforms powered by Claude and AWS AI services.
Design and implement AI agents, skills, workflows, and automation tools to accelerate migration activities.
Utilize AI-driven dependency analysis and business prioritization to optimize migration wave planning.
Drive automated migration validation, testing, cutover, and post-migration verification activities.

4. Migration Execution & Modernization

Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related migration services.
Lead modernization initiatives including containerization and migration to ECS or EKS where appropriate.
Oversee Windows and Linux upgrades, security hardening, patching, and compliance remediation for migrated workloads.
Resolve complex migration challenges and ensure successful workload transition to AWS.

5. Cloud Engineering Standards

Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
Establish cloud architecture patterns, reusable modules, migration standards, and deployment best practices.
Integrate CI/CD, automation, and configuration management tools to support cloud operations.

6. Governance & Leadership

Act as trusted advisor to client executives, technical leadership, and Architecture Review Boards.
Lead architecture governance, technical reviews, risk management, and migration decision-making.
Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, security, and business stakeholders.
Mentor architects and engineering teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.

Core Skills