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.
À savoir avant de postuler
- Autorisation de travail: Cognizant ne prendra en considération que les candidats à ce poste qui sont légalement autorisés à travailler au Canada sans avoir besoin d'un parrainage de l'employeur, aujourd'hui ou à l'avenir.
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À propos de Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) est un AI Builder et une entreprise de services numériques (ESN) élaborant des solutions complètes d’IA maximisant les investissements pour des résultats concrets. Sa profonde expertise des métiers, des processus et des technologies lui permet d’intégrer dans les systèmes technologiques le contexte unique de chaque organisation de l’ingénierie à la production à l’échelle. Son objectif: améliorer l’efficacité des équipes, créer de la valeur et permettre aux grandes entreprises de rester performantes dans un monde qui évolue rapidement. Pour en savoir plus: cognizant.ai ou @cognizant.
