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

Cognizant; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contribution

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Migration) to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations remotely. You will define the cloud target architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and drive execution with architects, engineers, and stakeholders across the transformation program.

Leverage Agentic AI platforms, Terraform IaC, and containerization (ECS/EKS) to accelerate migration waves, ensure security and operational excellence, and mentor cross-functional teams for

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cloud architectures and migration projects.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise AWS migrations with governance.
• Experience with AI-driven migration tooling and Terraform IaC.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment for AWS migration readiness and dependencies.
• Define target AWS landing zone architecture and migration roadmaps.
• Lead AI-driven migration enablement and automation to accelerate programs.
• Oversee VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and modernize to ECS/EKS.
• Define IaC standards and integrate CI/CD for cloud operations.
• Act as advisor to executives and mentors for cloud teams.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

AWS Enterprise Architecture

Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

AI & Agentic Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Leadership

Stakeholder Communication

Cloud Governance

Tools

Terraform

Matilda

AWS Discovery

Device42

AWS MGN

AWS Transform

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

Route 53

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Migration) to lead end-to-end VMware-to-AWS migrations remotely. You will define the cloud target architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and drive execution with architects, engineers, and stakeholders across the transformation program.

Leverage Agentic AI platforms, Terraform IaC, and containerization (ECS/EKS) to accelerate migration waves, ensure security and operational excellence, and mentor cross-functional teams for