Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect — AWS Migrations

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 142,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead cloud migration efforts. This role focuses on moving on-premises environments to AWS, including legacy workloads, with security at the forefront.

You will be a core member of the Cloud Center of Excellence, partnering with SRE and DevOps teams to build and automate an enterprise-class cloud environment, implement CI/CD pipelines, and raise the engineering bar while

Qualifications

• Migration experience moving on-premises environments, including legacy apps, to AWS.
• Modernization mindset: re-platforming, upgrading OS in the cloud or re-architecting workloads for value.
• Strong AWS architecture knowledge with VPC/subnet layout understanding.
• Security-first approach in regulated environments.
• DevOps/SRE practices including monitoring and observability.
• Containerization with Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon ECS.
• CI/CD pipeline management with Jenkins.
• IaC and scripting: Terraform, CloudFormation; Python, Bash, PowerShell.
• Cloud security controls and best practices in AWS.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or higher is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate an enterprise-class cloud environment on AWS.
• Lead and automate cloud services with strong technical guidance.
• Architect and optimize workloads for resilience, security, performance and cost.
• Plan and guide the migration of on-premises workloads to AWS.
• Re-platform and modernize during migration, including OS upgrades and potential re-architecting.
• Serve as a key resource for the Cloud Center of Excellence and drive engineering excellence.
• Support SRE/DevOps with architecture guidance, CI/CD, monitoring and observability.
• Incorporate security into every design, from VPC layout to deployment pipelines.

Skills

Migration to AWS

Modernization mindset

AWS architecture

Security by design

DevOps / SRE

Containerization

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Cloud security

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - 1

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Amazon ECS

Jenkins

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an Enterprise Architect with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience to lead cloud migration efforts. This role focuses on moving on-premises environments to AWS, including legacy workloads, with security at the forefront.

You will be a core member of the Cloud Center of Excellence, partnering with SRE and DevOps teams to build and automate an enterprise-class cloud environment, implement CI/CD pipelines, and raise the engineering bar while