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Senior AWS Cloud Architect

Job in Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, 58502, USA
Listing for: Cognizant
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-09
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    AWS, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 110000 - 160000 USD Yearly USD 110000.00 160000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Senior AWS Cloud Architect

Location:

Remote

Experience:

15+ years

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, Device
    42, 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, Private Link, 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, Device
42

Migration Services

AWS MGN, AWS Transform

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Containers

Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS

Networking

Route 53, Transit Gateway, Private Link

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

Service Now

Monitoring & Observability

Splunk, Dynatrace

OS Administration

Linux, Windows

Applications will be accepted until 10/5/2026

The annual salary for this position is between $110,000- $160,000 depending…

Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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