Senior AWS Cloud Solutions Lead & Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 135,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance program

Paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Sr. Consulting Manager, Solutions Engineering to design and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions enabling complex migration, modernization, and platform transformation.

You will collaborate with AWS architects and client teams, owning architectural outcomes while helping engineering teams build sustainable cloud and DevSecOps capabilities.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on AWS, with deep architecture across VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, AWS Organizations, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
• Strong hands-on AWS CDK and TypeScript expertise with cross-account deployments and enterprise security guardrails.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud migration and application modernization, with container expertise across Docker, ECS/Fargate, EKS, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Strong CI/CD and DevSecOps engineering experience, including pipelines via GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI, plus IAM and CSPM controls.
• Demonstrated consulting and client-facing delivery experience, including architecture leadership and knowledge transfer to build client engineering capability.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions aligned with AWS Well-Architected principles (landing zones, multi-account, networking, IAM, security).
• Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives (on-premises to AWS, ECS/Fargate, serverless, APIs).
• Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript (L2/L3 constructs, cross-account deployments).
• Engineer secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities (pipeline design, security gates, CSPM, compliance).
• Serve as trusted technical advisor to client teams (discovery, architecture reviews, workshops, knowledge transfer).

Skills

AWS

CDK/TypeScript

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Cloud migration

Architectural leadership

Terraform

FinOps

Kubernetes

Security controls

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Tools

Docker

ECS/Fargate

EKS

Kubernetes

Helm

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Terraform

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Sr. Consulting Manager, Solutions Engineering to design and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions enabling complex migration, modernization, and platform transformation.

You will collaborate with AWS architects and client teams, owning architectural outcomes while helping engineering teams build sustainable cloud and DevSecOps capabilities.