Senior AWS Cloud Architect: VMware Migration Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid Holidays & PTO

401(k) Plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks an Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Migration) to lead VMware datacenter migrations to AWS, defining architecture, strategy, and governance while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders.

You will drive end-to-end migration programs, enable AI-driven automation, containerization, and modernization with MGN, ECS/EKS, and serverless services, while enforcing IaC and secure, scalable patterns.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cloud architecture and large-scale migrations.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations.
• Experience with AI-enabled migration and cloud automation.
• Strong governance, security, and operational-excellence focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment for migration readiness.
• Define target AWS landing zone and migration roadmaps.
• Architect and implement AI-driven migration workflows.
• Oversee migration execution, modernization, and security hardening.
• Define IaC standards and CI/CD integration.
• Mentor teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

Migration Tools

IaC Terraform

Containers ECS/EKS

Networking Route53

Serverless Lambda

AI & Agentic Automation

Architecture Tools Draw.io

Security & Governance

Tools

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

AWS MGN

Terraform

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks an Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Migration) to lead VMware datacenter migrations to AWS, defining architecture, strategy, and governance while guiding architects, engineers, and stakeholders.

You will drive end-to-end migration programs, enable AI-driven automation, containerization, and modernization with MGN, ECS/EKS, and serverless services, while enforcing IaC and secure, scalable patterns.