Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Migration Engineer to lead large-scale migrations from on-premises VMware environments to AWS. The role involves assessing infrastructure, planning and executing migrations, deploying and automating AWS environments, and supporting validation, stabilization, governance, and operational handoff.
Responsibilities
- Assess existing VMware vSphere environments, including ESXi, vCenter, clusters, networking, storage, and associated dependencies
- Perform infrastructure and application discovery to identify migration candidates and readiness
- Analyze application and workload characteristics and recommend appropriate migration strategies, including Rehost, Replatform, and Modernization approaches
- Document application dependencies, migration waves, migration schedules, and cutover plans
- Plan, coordinate, and execute migrations of VMware virtual machines and workloads to AWS
- Implement, configure, and manage AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) and associated migration tools
- Execute pilot migrations and support migration factory operations at scale
- Develop migration runbooks, rollback procedures, validation plans, and operational checklists
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, database, network, and security teams to coordinate migration activities
- Perform migration cutovers and post-migration tasks while minimizing business disruption and downtime
- Design, build, and configure AWS cloud infrastructure components, including: Amazon VPC, Amazon EC2, AWS IAM, Security Groups, Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancers, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Systems Manager
- Support AWS landing zone validation and ensure network connectivity readiness
- Automate migration, provisioning, and infrastructure deployment activities using: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, VMware PowerCLI
- Develop automation workflows and scripts to improve migration efficiency and consistency
- Optimize AWS environments for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
- Perform migration validation activities, including: Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Connectivity Testing, Disaster Recovery (DR) Validation
- Troubleshoot and resolve post-migration issues during hypercare and stabilization periods
- Support operational handoff and knowledge transfer activities to operations and support teams
- Maintain migration schedules, status reports, dashboards, and risk registers
- Participate in Change Advisory Board (CAB) reviews and change management processes
- Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and operational runbooks
- Ensure adherence to organizational governance, security, and compliance requirements throughout migration activities
Skills
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the US
- * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
- * 5+ years of experience supporting VMware infrastructure environments
- * 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing AWS cloud solutions
- * Proven experience leading or executing VMware-to-AWS migration projects
- * Strong understanding of cloud migration methodologies, assessment frameworks, and migration best practices
- * Experience using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) and migration tooling
- * Hands-on expertise with AWS networking, security, identity management, and compute services
- * Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Python, and VMware PowerCLI
- * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
- * Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- * Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities
- * VMware vSphere
- * ESXi
- * VMware vCenter
- * VMware Cluster Management
- * DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler)
- * High Availability (HA)
- * VMware Networking & Storage
- * VMware PowerCLI
- * Amazon EC2
- * Amazon VPC
- * AWS IAM
- * Security Groups
- * Amazon Route 53
- * AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
- * Amazon S3
- * Amazon CloudWatch
- * AWS Systems Manager
- * Terraform
- * AWS CloudFormation
- * Python
- * PowerShell
- * Automation Frameworks and Scripting
- * AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification
- * AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or AWS Advanced Networking certification
- * Experience with large-scale enterprise cloud transformation initiatives
- * Experience with hybrid cloud environments and landing zone implementations
- * Familiarity with ITIL processes, change management, and CAB governance
- * Experience supporting Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity initiatives
Benefits
- This is a remote role.
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