Senior Consulting Manager, Solutions Engineering

Cognizant

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Work type: Remote
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $134,500–$158,500 / yr
Posted: 6 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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TL;DR · Senior Consulting Manager, Solutions Engineering

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The Sr. Consulting Manager, Solutions Engineering joins the Solutions Engineering team to design and deliver enterprise-scale AWS cloud solutions. This role involves leading cloud migration and application modernization initiatives, specifically moving workloads from on-premises or legacy environments to AWS. You will architect landing zones, multi-account structures, and networking while building Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript. Key responsibilities include engineering secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI, and providing technical advisory services through workshops and paired-programming. The work focuses on complex financial-services workloads, requiring expertise in ECS, Fargate, Lambda, and Kubernetes. You will solve technical problems related to platform transformation, cloud-native modernization patterns, and implementing automated security and quality gates within regulated industries.

Skills

AWS TypeScript AWS CDK DevSecOps CI/CD ECS Fargate Kubernetes Terraform Docker Helm EKS Lambda CloudFormation GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI IAM VPC EC2 AWS Organizations FinOps

What you'll do

Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions following Well-Architected principles for complex financial-services workloads.
Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives from on-premises or legacy environments to AWS.
Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript to create reusable constructs and deployment patterns.
Engineer secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities including automated security gates and cloud compliance controls.
Serve as a technical advisor by leading discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and technical workshops for clients.
Provide structured knowledge transfer and coaching to strengthen client engineering capabilities in cloud-native technologies.

What we're looking for

12+ years of hands-on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience.
5+ years of experience focused on AWS.
Expertise in AWS architecture including VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, AWS Organizations, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
Strong hands-on AWS CDK and TypeScript expertise for authoring L2/L3 constructs and reusable IaC patterns.
Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud migration and application modernization using Docker, ECS/Fargate, EKS, Kubernetes, and Helm.
Experience designing and standardizing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI with DevSecOps and cloud-security guardrails.
Demonstrated consulting and client-facing delivery experience including architecture leadership, technical workshops, and stakeholder communication.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (preferred).

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