Cloud and Compute Architect
Posted 2025-04-06Cognizant is seeking a Cloud and Compute Architect for a full-time opportunity. This is a remote role, and the candidate can be located anywhere in the US (must be able to work PST hours)
The salary range for this role is between $135,000 to $160,000 depending on experience and qualifications of the candidate. All applicants must have valid work authorization.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:  Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance  Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off  401(k) plan and contributions  Long-term/Short-term Disability  Paid Parental Leave  Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
This role calls for a senior systems and security architect i.e., an individual with deep roots in server/compute/related areas. The role would span On Premise/Cloud (AWS).
Responsibilities:  Independently own Networking initiates in data center and cloud domain  Ideal candidate will have SaaS+ on prem SW installation + general understanding of security + network experience  Work closely with customer stakeholders on cloud migration  Work with project governance team on defining acceptance criteria and get sign-off  Requirements gathering for target cloud landscape  Prepare target state design for cloud migration  Determine source and target Workloads, Create migration runbook  Provisioning of Dev, QA and Production environment  Define standards and processes for cloud provisioning  Leverage automation script/Manage script changes  Review target architecture on cloud.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have 10 or more years of experience in the following areas:
 On-Prem: Data center, Compute (Redhat & SUSE Linux, AIX, Solaris, Windows), Storage (NetApp, Pure, Hitachi, EMC, IBM), SAN (Cisco & Brocade), VMWare, Apache, Tomcat, Backups (NetBackup & Commvault), HA (Veritas and Redhat Cluster), Databases, DR solutions, DNS, NTP, Load balancers, Checkpoint and Cisco Firewalls, IDS
 Platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP), Microsoft Azure
 Containers, CI, CD: Kubernetes, Dockers, ECS, EKS, Jenkins
 Tools /Language: Device42, Microsoft office, Visio, project, Git, GitHub, GitLab, YAML, Shell Scripting.
Preferred Skills:
 Monitoring: Splunk, SolarWinds, Prometheus, Nagios, Dynatrace,
 Security Tools: Rapid7, Sentinel-One, Varonis, AWS Security HUB (Guard-duty, Inspector, Detective, CloudTrail)
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