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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.
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