Senior Cloud Solutions Architect & Engineering Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting, part of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, is seeking a Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead to design and deliver enterprise‑scale AWS cloud solutions enabling complex migration, modernization, and platform transformation.

You will collaborate with AWS architects and client teams, owning architectural outcomes while guiding engineering teams in secure cloud‑native practices, CDK/TypeScript, and DevSecOps across ECS/Fargate and containers.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands‑on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on AWS.
• Strong hands‑on AWS CDK and TypeScript expertise, including authoring L2/L3 constructs and cross‑account deployments.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud migration and application modernization with container expertise across Docker, ECS/Fargate, EKS, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Strong CI/CD and DevSecOps engineering experience with pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI, plus security guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions aligned with AWS Well‑Architected principles.
• Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives with emphasis on ECS/Fargate and serverless architectures.
• Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript across accounts.
• Engineer secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities with automated security and quality gates.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor, leading discovery sessions and knowledge transfer.

Skills

AWS

Cloud & infrastructure engineering

CDK/TypeScript

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Consulting

Leadership

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Tools

AWS CDK

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS/Fargate

EKS

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Cognizant Consulting, part of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, is seeking a Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead to design and deliver enterprise‑scale AWS cloud solutions enabling complex migration, modernization, and platform transformation.

You will collaborate with AWS architects and client teams, owning architectural outcomes while guiding engineering teams in secure cloud‑native practices, CDK/TypeScript, and DevSecOps across ECS/Fargate and containers.