Senior Cloud Solutions Architect - AWS Lead (Remote)

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Bismarck (ND); Remote; USD 165,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life

401(k) plan and contributions

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance program

10 paid holidays + PTO

Parental leave and fertility support

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead to design and deliver enterprise-scale AWS cloud solutions enabling complex migrations and platform transformation. You will work with AWS architects and client teams to build sustainable cloud and DevSecOps capabilities.

Responsibilities include leading discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and structured knowledge transfer while guiding landing zones, multi-account architectures, and secure configurations

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, with 5+ years on AWS.
• Strong hands-on AWS CDK and TypeScript expertise for IaC patterns.
• Proven enterprise cloud migration and modernization delivery with container tech (Docker, ECS/Fargate, EKS).
• Extensive CI/CD/DevSecOps experience with pipelines (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab CI) and security guardrails.
• Consulting and client-facing delivery experience including workshops, reviews, and knowledge transfer.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions per Well-Architected framework.
• Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives from on-premises to AWS.
• Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript.
• Engineer secure DevSecOps pipelines and governance.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor with discovery sessions and architecture reviews.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS CDK

TypeScript

Cloud migration

DevSecOps

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead to design and deliver enterprise-scale AWS cloud solutions enabling complex migrations and platform transformation. You will work with AWS architects and client teams to build sustainable cloud and DevSecOps capabilities.

Responsibilities include leading discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and structured knowledge transfer while guiding landing zones, multi-account architectures, and secure configurations