Senior AWS WorkSpaces Migration Architect

Cognizant; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS WorkSpaces Migration Architect to lead large-scale EUC transformation and VDI migrations to AWS WorkSpaces. You will design secure, scalable environments and guide migration strategy from discovery through production.

You will collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams, architecting Terraform IaC, FSLogix, and automation pipelines to ensure successful delivery and ongoing optimization of desktop workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• 14+ years of EUC/VDI/Desktop Virtualization/Cloud Workspace experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on AWS cloud services and AWS WorkSpaces.
• Proven experience leading large-scale desktop migration and modernization.
• Strong client-facing consulting and architecture experience.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments with thousands of virtual desktop users.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end discovery, assessment, dependency mapping, sizing, and migration planning for AWS WorkSpaces.
• Define migration roadmaps, pilot deployments, waves, cutover strategies, rollback procedures, and transition plans.
• Architect, deploy, and optimize AWS WorkSpaces Personal and Pools environments.
• Design desktop pool strategies aligned with personas, productivity, security, and ops.
• Develop scalable architectures including capacity planning, performance optimization, HA, resiliency, DR.
• Implement user profile persistence using FSLogix, UPD, Profile Containers, Amazon FSx, and App Layering.
• Recommend and architect desktop delivery models: Persistent/Non-Persistent/Hybrid.
• Optimize application delivery and data access in the VDI.
• Establish Golden Image Management frameworks and image lifecycle automation.
• Develop Terraform IaC modules for WorkSpaces, VPC, networking, IAM.
• Design CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline.
• Enable GitOps deployments, automated testing, compliance validation, release governance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure delivery and knowledge transfer.

Skills

AWS WorkSpaces

Terraform

FSLogix

CI/CD automation

Image management

End user computing

Client-facing consulting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

AWS CodePipeline

Git

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS WorkSpaces Migration Architect to lead large-scale EUC transformation and VDI migrations to AWS WorkSpaces. You will design secure, scalable environments and guide migration strategy from discovery through production.

You will collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams, architecting Terraform IaC, FSLogix, and automation pipelines to ensure successful delivery and ongoing optimization of desktop workloads.