Cloud Architect

Cognizant; Bengaluru Urban; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Cloud Architect to design secure, scalable AWS-based solutions with container orchestration, managed caching, messaging, and API management. The role emphasizes governance, cost efficiency, and compliance for enterprise clients in a hybrid work model.

The candidate will lead reference architectures, implement container workloads, optimize performance, and collaborate with security, operations, and development teams to ensure reliable, compliant cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 8–11 years of professional experience in designing cloud or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud reference architectures using container orchestration and secure API exposure.
• Implement and optimize container workloads across environments.
• Configure managed caching and messaging services for low latency.
• Architect asynchronous messaging patterns for high throughput.
• Govern API management with usage policies and analytics.
• Guide cost, security, and performance improvements and runbooks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements.
• Provide guidance on migration strategies and best practices.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Container orchestration

Security governance

Observability

Automation scripting

Cross-functional collaboration

Cost optimization

Incident response

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

API Management

Configuration management

Observability tools

Automation tooling

Job description

Job Summary

Cloud architect role responsible for designing and optimizing secure scalable and resilient solutions on AWS using services such as container orchestration managed caching messaging and API management while ensuring strong governance and cost efficiency for enterprise clients in a hybrid work model with a focus on operational excellence and compliance alignment

Job Summary

Cloud architect role responsible for designing and optimizing secure scalable and resilient solutions on AWS using services such as container orchestration managed caching messaging and API management while ensuring strong governance and cost efficiency for enterprise clients in a hybrid work model with a focus on operational excellence and compliance alignment

Responsibilities

• Design robust cloud reference architectures that leverage container orchestration managed caching distributed messaging and secure API exposure to deliver reliable and scalable business platforms that align with enterprise standards and long term technology strategy
• Implement and optimize container based workloads using managed orchestration and serverless container services to ensure consistent application deployment high availability and efficient resource utilization across multiple environments
• Configure and manage managed caching services to reduce application latency optimize data retrieval patterns and improve overall system responsiveness while maintaining cost effectiveness and operational stability
• Architect and integrate asynchronous messaging patterns using managed message queuing services to decouple application components increase fault tolerance and support high throughput transaction processing in complex distributed systems
• Design and govern API management solutions that provide secure controlled and observable access to backend services while enforcing usage policies request throttling and analytics to support partner and internal integration ecosystems
• Utilize advisory tooling to continuously assess cost security performance and service limits providing actionable recommendations that improve reliability reduce operational risk and maintain budget alignment for cloud workloads
• Configure and maintain configuration management services to track resource changes enforce configuration policies and support compliance reporting across multiple accounts and environments for regulated and enterprise clients
• Design network topologies using virtual private networking connectivity options and routing configurations that provide secure segmentation high availability connectivity and optimized traffic flows between cloud and on premises environments
• Implement and tune web application protection capabilities including rule sets access controls and traffic inspection to defend applications against common threats while balancing security posture with application performance and usability
• Manage and optimize multi account governance structures using organization management capabilities that support centralized policy enforcement consolidated billing and controlled account provisioning for large scale cloud adoption
• Develop and maintain command line driven automation workflows that streamline environment provisioning configuration management and operational tasks to reduce manual effort and improve consistency across deployment pipelines
• Collaborate with cross functional teams including developers security specialists and operations professionals to translate solution requirements into feasible cloud designs while promoting best practices and shared ownership of outcomes
• Provide guidance and knowledge sharing to stakeholders on cloud architecture decision tradeoffs resilience patterns cost optimization techniques and migration strategies to support informed decision making and sustainable cloud growth
• Drive continuous improvement in observability incident response readiness and operational resilience by defining metrics dashboards and runbooks that align with business service level objectives and customer experience priorities

Qualifications

• Possess eight to eleven years of professional experience in designing and implementing cloud or distributed systems solutions with a strong focus on enterprise scale adoption and operational excellence
• Demonstrate advanced hands on expertise with managed container orchestration services including configuring clusters deploying workloads managing updates and optimizing resource usage for production environments
• Show proven experience configuring and tuning managed caching services message queuing platforms and API management solutions to support high performance low latency and loosely coupled application architectures
• Exhibit strong proficiency with security and governance services including web application protection advisory tools configuration management and organization level policies with a focus on compliance and risk mitigation
• Display solid knowledge of cloud networking concepts such as subnets routing connectivity options and traffic security controls combined with experience integrating cloud networks with on premises infrastructure
• Apply practical skills with command line interfaces infrastructure scripting and automation tools to enable repeatable deployments efficient troubleshooting and consistent environment management across teams
• Communicate complex cloud architecture concepts and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non technical stakeholders while working effectively in a hybrid work model and collaborating across global or distributed teams

Certifications Required

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or equivalent cloud architect certification