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AWS Architect

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What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world’s leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.

Position Summary:

The role is responsible for the architecture, design, governance, and operational excellence of enterprise cloud platforms. This role partners with application teams, infrastructure teams, security organizations, and product stakeholders to design scalable, secure, resilient, and automated cloud solutions across AWS and Azure environments.

Mandatory Skills:

  • AWS and/or Azure architecture
  • Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/OpenShift)
  • Terraform or Infrastructure as Code platforms
  • CI/CD (Harness, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, etc.)
  • Linux administration
  • Cloud networking and security
  • Observability tools (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
  • SRE practices, SLIs/SLOs, incident management
  • Enterprise architecture and governance

Roles And Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture & Design

  • Define target-state cloud architectures and reference patterns.
  • Design highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure.
  • Lead adoption of cloud-native technologies and modernization initiatives.
  • Review application architectures for compliance with enterprise standards.

Platform Engineering

  • Architect and maintain Kubernetes platforms (EKS/AKS).
  • Develop reusable infrastructure patterns using Infrastructure as Code.
  • Establish platform standards, governance controls, and operational guardrails.
  • Drive platform automation and self-service capabilities.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

  • Define reliability, availability, and performance objectives.
  • Lead proactive resiliency and capacity planning activities.
  • Implement observability, monitoring, logging, and incident response capabilities.
  • Conduct operational readiness reviews and production support guidance.

CI/CD & DevOps

  • Design and govern CI/CD solutions using Harness, GitHub Enterprise, Artifactory, and related tooling.
  • Define deployment standards and release automation strategies.
  • Enable secure software delivery pipelines.
  • Partner with development teams to improve deployment reliability and velocity.

Resilience Engineering

  • Define testing standards for failure scenarios and recovery validation.
  • Develop reliability dashboards and governance processes.

Cloud Security & Compliance

  • Collaborate with security teams on cloud security controls.
  • Support implementation of workload protection and compliance requirements.
  • Evaluate security tooling and cloud-native security capabilities.
  • Ensure architecture alignment with enterprise risk and audit requirements.

Technical Leadership

  • Provide architecture guidance to engineering and operations teams.
  • Mentor engineers and architects.
  • Lead technical reviews and design workshops.
  • Drive strategic cloud transformation initiatives.

Leadership Expectations

  • Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy.
  • Influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
  • Balance innovation, risk, reliability, and operational efficiency.
  • Act as a technical escalation point for critical platform issues.

Qualifications/Certifications:

Preferred Experience

  • Large-scale enterprise cloud environments
  • Financial services or regulated industry experience
  • Multi-cloud architecture
  • IAM, RBAC role understanding
  • Platform engineering and developer enablement
  • Cloud security and compliance frameworks

Salary Range: >$100,000
Date of Posting: 28-Oct-26

Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.

For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit http://www.cognizant.com/careers. Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.

Things to know before you apply

  • Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
  • Accommodations: If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
  • AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
  • Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
  • Language proficiency: We ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
  • Inclusion: Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

Benefits that help you thrive and grow

Our benefits program is built with you in mind—so you can enjoy a fulfilling, balanced and healthy life.

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Financial wellbeing

We regularly review market data to ensure compensation reflects the value you bring. Your benefits extend beyond pay and may include financial education, a pension plan with matching contributions, etc.

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Physical and mental health

We empower you to prioritize your wellbeing through paid time off, flexible working where possible, healthcare plans, counselling, our Mental Health Allyship program and more. 

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Your career, your way

With 350,000+ roles at Cognizant, you’ll have opportunities explore new technologies, industries and locations—and build the skills you need to grow your career.

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Real-world impact

Think about the biggest brands you rely on. Chances are, they rely on us to help strengthen their business. Here, you’ll turn bold ideas into solutions that improve lives everywhere.

Your path to Cognizant

Here’s what you can expect from our hiring process. Please keep in mind that it may vary by role and location. Explore our FAQs to learn more.

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Step 1: Apply to the right opportunity

Find an open role that matches your skills and career goals and show us why you’re the person for the job. Don’t see the right opportunity? Consider joining our Talent Community.

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Step 2: Connect with your recruiter

If one of our recruiters sees a fit, they’ll set up a short intro call to learn more about you and how your experiences and skills match the role.

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Step 3: Show off your skills

If you and our team would like to continue the process, you’ll interview with our hiring team. Some roles may also require technical assessments and/or client interviews.

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Step 4: Decision time

Our team will then review each candidates’ potential to succeed in the role. This step may take some time because we want to find the right fit for both you and us—but you can count on us to keep you updated.

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