Senior AWS Cloud Architect
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 18, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 5, 2026. Cognizant scores B on the Alion truth index.
Senior AWS Cloud Architect
Location: Remote
Experience: 15+ years
Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*
Role Summary
Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based datacenter workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions. Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and technical execution while providing leadership to architects, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the transformation program.
Key Responsibilities
1. Discovery & Assessment
- Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42, or similar platforms.
- Assess servers, applications, databases, storage, and network dependencies for AWS migration readiness.
- Analyze infrastructure inventory, utilization, business criticality, risks, and remediation requirements.
- Perform migration strategy assessment using the AWS 6R framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, Retain).
2. AWS Architecture & Migration Strategy
- Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards.
- Develop migration roadmaps, migration waves, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
- Design AWS infrastructure solutions leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, and Lambda.
- Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
3. Agentic AI-Driven Migration Enablement
- Lead migration execution using Agentic AI platforms powered by Claude and AWS AI services.
- Design and implement AI agents, skills, workflows, and automation tools to accelerate migration activities.
- Utilize AI-driven dependency analysis and business prioritization to optimize migration wave planning.
- Drive automated migration validation, testing, cutover, and post-migration verification activities.
4. Migration Execution & Modernization
- Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related migration services.
- Lead modernization initiatives including containerization and migration to ECS or EKS where appropriate.
- Oversee Windows and Linux upgrades, security hardening, patching, and compliance remediation for migrated workloads.
- Resolve complex migration challenges and ensure successful workload transition to AWS.
5. Cloud Engineering Standards
- Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
- Establish cloud architecture patterns, reusable modules, migration standards, and deployment best practices.
- Integrate CI/CD, automation, and configuration management tools to support cloud operations.
6. Governance & Leadership
- Act as trusted advisor to client executives, technical leadership, and Architecture Review Boards.
- Lead architecture governance, technical reviews, risk management, and migration decision-making.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, security, and business stakeholders.
- Mentor architects and engineering teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.
Core Skills
Category
Skills
Cloud Architecture
AWS Enterprise Architecture, Landing Zones, AWS Organizations
Migration Tools
Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42
Migration Services
AWS MGN, AWS Transform
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
Containers
Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS
Networking
Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink
Storage
Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx
Serverless
Lambda, API Gateway
AI & Agentic Automation
Claude LLM, Claude API, Claude Code, Prompt Engineering, AWS Bedrock
Architecture Tools
Draw.io, MS Visio
Good to Have
Category
Skills
CI/CD & Automation
Jenkins, Ansible
ITSM / CMDB
ServiceNow
Monitoring & Observability
Splunk, Dynatrace
OS Administration
Linux, Windows
Applications will be accepted until 10/23/2026
The annual salary for this position is between $110,000- $160,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and is subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
· Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
· Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
· 401(k) plan and contribution
· Long-term/Short-term Disability
· Paid Parental Leave
· Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.