About the role
As a Cloud Resiliency Architect, you will make an impact by helping customers strengthen the reliability, continuity, and recoverability of their cloud environments. You will be a valued member of the delivery team and work collaboratively with technical stakeholders, operational leads, and cloud architecture specialists to assess risk, optimize recovery strategies, and improve resilience across critical workloads.
In this role, you will:
- Assess the resiliency posture of customer cloud environments from both technical and operational perspectives.
- Evaluate disaster recovery (DR) plans, business continuity (BC) strategies, and Major Incident Response Plans (MIRPs).
- Analyze cloud infrastructure, application dependencies, observability configurations, and failover capabilities.
- Review and enhance MIRPs, including escalation paths, communication plans, sequencing, and impact containment strategies.
- Identify risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure across workloads and operational processes.
What you need to have to be considered
- Expertise in designing high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) architectures in Microsoft Azure.
- Strong knowledge of Azure infrastructure, Availability Zones, backup and recovery services, and monitoring/observability tools.
- Familiarity with cloud‑native resiliency patterns and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices.
- Ability to assess or design Major Incident Response Plans (MIRPs) aligned to SLAs and business risk tolerances.
- Experience in business continuity planning, incident response coordination, and process maturity assessments.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills for both technical and executive audiences.
- Background in technical consulting or assessment‑based project delivery.
- Certifications:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- ITIL Foundation
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
These will help you stand out
- Experience contributing to or leading enterprise-wide MIRP and DR testing programs.
- Familiarity with operational resilience frameworks (e.g., ISO 22301, NIST SP 800‑34, SOC 2 Type II).
- Experience supporting regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, or government.
- Hands‑on experience with Azure BCDR tools such as Azure Site Recovery, Backup Vaults, Automation, or Service Health.
- Knowledge of hybrid or multi‑cloud environments and their resiliency implications.
- Exposure to chaos engineering or resilience testing tools.
- Experience integrating DR validation or backup checks into DevOps pipelines.
- Familiarity with incident simulation platforms, runbook automation, Microsoft Sentinel, or ServiceNow workflows.
- Preferred certifications:
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- BC/DR certifications (CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer)
- Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
La Comunidad Cognizant:
Somos un equipo que se aprecia y apoya mutuamente. Nuestros asociados trabajan en un entorno colaborativo e integrador en el que todos pueden prosperar.
- Cognizant es una comunidad global con más de 300.000+ asociados en todo el mundo.
- No solo soñamos con un mundo mejor, sino que trabajamos para hacerlo realidad.
- Cuidamos de nuestros asociados, clientes, socios, comunidades y entorno haciendo lo correcto.
- Fomentamos un entorno innovador en el que puedes desarrollar tu carrera profesional.
Acerca de nosotros
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) es arquitecto de soluciones de IA y proveedor de servicios tecnológicos que traduce la inversión en inteligencia artificial en valor empresarial real mediante soluciones de IA de stack completo adaptadas a cada cliente. Su profundo conocimiento de la industria, los procesos y la ingeniería le permite integrar el contexto único de cada organización en sistemas tecnológicos que amplifican el potencial humano, generan un impacto real en el negocio y mantienen a las grandes empresas globales un paso adelante en un mundo en constante cambio. Para más información, visita www.cognizant.es o síguenos en @cognizant.
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