Cloud Platform Architect, AWS & Azure

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to own the architecture, design, governance, and operation of enterprise cloud platforms across AWS and Azure. You will partner with application, infrastructure, security, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and automated cloud solutions.

Responsibilities include leading platform engineering, SRE practices, and securing cloud environments while driving modernization initiatives and governance across

Qualifications

• :AWS and/or Azure architecture expertise.
• :Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/OpenShift) experience.
• :Terraform or Infrastructure as Code tooling.
• :CI/CD expertise with Harness, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins.
• :Linux administration experience.
• :Cloud networking and security knowledge.
• :Observability and SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs.
• :Enterprise architecture and governance experience.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture & Design: Define target-state cloud architectures and reference patterns.
• Platform Engineering: Architect and maintain Kubernetes platforms (EKS/AKS).
• SRE: Define reliability, availability, and performance objectives; incident management.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Govern CI/CD solutions and deployment standards.
• Resilience Engineering: Define testing standards for failures and recovery.
• Cloud Security & Compliance: Collaborate on security controls and compliance.
• Technical Leadership: Provide architecture guidance and mentor engineers.
• Leadership Expectations: Drive strategy and influence cross-functional teams.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux Admin

Cloud Networking & Security

Observability

SRE Practices

Enterprise Architecture

Tools

Harness

GitHub Enterprise

Jenkins

Artifactory

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to own the architecture, design, governance, and operation of enterprise cloud platforms across AWS and Azure. You will partner with application, infrastructure, security, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and automated cloud solutions.

Responsibilities include leading platform engineering, SRE practices, and securing cloud environments while driving modernization initiatives and governance across