Senior AWS Enterprise Cloud Migration Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 142,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead migrations from on-premises to AWS. This role emphasizes cloud-first modernization, not just lift-and-shift, with a focus on security, compliance and optimal architectural patterns.

You will join the Cloud Center of Excellence and collaborate with SRE/DevOps to deliver enterprise-class cloud environments, automations, and secure deployment pipelines, while guiding

Qualifications

• Migration of on-premises environments to AWS with rationale and alternatives.
• Re-platforming and modernization activities in the cloud.
• Strong command of AWS services, VPC/subnet design and networking implications.
• Security-first design and governance in regulated environments.
• DevOps/SRE practices including monitoring/observability.
• Infrastructure as code and scripting with Terraform and CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate an enterprise-class cloud environment on AWS.
• Lead, develop and automate cloud services.
• Architect and optimize workloads for resilience, security, performance and cost.
• Plan and guide migration of on-premises workloads to AWS with well-reasoned approaches.
• Re-platform and modernize as part of migration, upgrading OS and re-architecting apps where sensible.
• Serve as a resource for Cloud Center of Excellence and engineering standards.
• Support SRE/DevOps with architecture guidance, CI/CD, monitoring and observability.
• Incorporate security into every design from VPC layout to deployment pipelines.

Skills

Migration experience

Cloud modernization

AWS architecture

Security in cloud

DevOps/SRE

Containerization

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Cloud security

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Amazon ECS

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead migrations from on-premises to AWS. This role emphasizes cloud-first modernization, not just lift-and-shift, with a focus on security, compliance and optimal architectural patterns.

You will join the Cloud Center of Excellence and collaborate with SRE/DevOps to deliver enterprise-class cloud environments, automations, and secure deployment pipelines, while guiding