Senior AWS Solutions Engineering Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 135,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance program

Paid holidays PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Sr. Consulting Manager, Solutions Engineering to design and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions for complex financial-services workloads.

You will lead cloud migration, modernization, and secure DevSecOps initiatives while collaborating with AWS architects and client teams. The role blends hands-on technical delivery with consulting leadership and requires strong architectural oversight, governance, and stakeholder communication across AWS, CDK/TypeScript,

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on AWS.
• Strong hands-on AWS CDK and TypeScript expertise with enterprise security guardrails.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud migration and application modernization with container tech (Docker, ECS/Fargate, EKS).
• Strong CI/CD and DevSecOps engineering experience with pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Demonstrated consulting and client-facing delivery experience with architecture leadership and knowledge transfer.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions aligned with AWS Well-Architected principles.
• Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives to AWS.
• Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript.
• Engineer secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities and governance.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor, leading discovery sessions and architecture reviews.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevSecOps

Consulting delivery

AWS services

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Tools

AWS CDK

TypeScript

Docker

ECS/Fargate

EKS

Kubernetes

Helm

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Terraform

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Sr. Consulting Manager, Solutions Engineering to design and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions for complex financial-services workloads.

You will lead cloud migration, modernization, and secure DevSecOps initiatives while collaborating with AWS architects and client teams. The role blends hands-on technical delivery with consulting leadership and requires strong architectural oversight, governance, and stakeholder communication across AWS, CDK/TypeScript,