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.
Sobre a Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) é uma construtora de IA e fornecedora de serviços de tecnologia, criando a ponte entre o investimento em IA e o valor para as empresas por meio do desenvolvimento de soluções de IA completas para nossos clientes. Nossa profunda experiência em setores, processos e engenharia nos permite incorporar o contexto único de cada organização em sistemas tecnológicos que potencializam a capacidade humana, geram resultados tangíveis e mantêm empresas globais à frente em um mundo em rápida transformação. Saiba mais em cognizant.ai ou @cognizant.
A Cognizant é uma empregadora que investe em equidade. Sua candidatura não será pautada em raça, cor, gênero, sexualidade, credo, origem, deficiência, gravidez ou qualquer outra característica protegida pelas leis brasileiras.
Informações adicionais de emprego
Os candidatos podem ser obrigados a comparecer a entrevistas presenciais ou por videoconferência. Além disso, os candidatos podem ser obrigados a apresentar seu documento de identificação emitido pelo estado ou governo atual durante cada entrevista.
Embora nosso sistema permita a candidatura em todos os idiomas, o(s) idioma(s) e o(s) nível(is) de proficiência exigidos para o trabalho variam. No entanto, é necessário um nível básico de inglês para fins de comunicação em toda a empresa.
A Cognizant é uma empregadora que investe em equidade. Sua candidatura não será pautada em raça, cor, gênero, sexualidade, credo, origem, deficiência, gravidez ou qualquer outra característica protegida pelas leis brasileiras.
Se você tem uma deficiência que requer adaptações razoáveis para procurar uma vaga de emprego ou enviar uma candidatura, envie um e-mail para [email protected] com sua solicitação e informações de contato.
