Cloud Architect

Cognizant; Karnataka; Hybrid; INR 2,600,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to design and implement secure, scalable AWS-based solutions for global stakeholders, focusing on resilience, performance, and cost optimization. The role covers container orchestration, managed databases, data pipelines, edge delivery, security controls, and event-driven architectures in a hybrid, globally distributed environment.

You will automate infrastructure with CLI/SDKs, collaborate with product and data teams, and document patterns to

Qualifications

• 8–9 years of cloud solution design and AWS workloads experience.
• Hands-on with container orchestration and registries; production databases.
• Proficient in secure content delivery and edge protection integration.
• Experience building scalable data pipelines with ETL tooling.
• Proficient with CLI, SDKs, and automation for hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of well-architected frameworks and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud architectures on AWS for global stakeholders.
• Manage container-based workloads with orchestration services and registries.
• Architect and optimize relational and document databases for transactional and analytic workloads.
• Develop data pipelines for reliable ingestion, cleansing, and aggregation.
• Implement secure, low-latency content delivery with edge optimization.
• Configure cloud security controls and encryption standards.
• Build event-driven architectures using messaging services.
• Design APIs with gateway services for internal and external consumers.
• Apply well-architected principles to improve workloads and new designs.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operations via CLI/SDKs.
• Collaborate with product, application, and data teams in hybrid settings.
• Monitor workloads and analyze performance, bottlenecks, and resource usage.
• Document architecture patterns and procedures for consistent deployment.

Skills

AWS architecture

Cloud solution design

Security best practices

Data pipeline design

Edge delivery & CDN

Automation scripting

Hybrid collaboration

Event-driven architecture

Education

AWS Certification

Tools

Kubernetes

Container Registries

Managed Databases

ETL tooling

Edge delivery services

Messaging services

APIs gateway

Job description

Job Summary

Cloud architect role focused on designing and implementing secure scalable and resilient solutions on the AWS platform using services such as container registries managed databases messaging content delivery and automation tools while aligning with best practices hybrid work policies and business goals to deliver reliable cloud applications and data platforms for global stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust cloud architectures on the AWS platform that align with business goals and deliver highly available application and data solutions for global stakeholders.
• Configure and manage container based workloads using cloud native orchestration services and enterprise container registries to ensure efficient deployment scaling and lifecycle management of microservices.
• Architect and optimize managed relational and document database solutions that support transactional applications and analytical workloads while ensuring data integrity performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines and transformation workflows using scalable extract transform and load tooling to enable reliable data ingestion cleansing and aggregation from diverse enterprise sources.
• Implement secure and resilient content delivery solutions using advanced edge optimization capabilities that provide low latency access and strong protection for web and application assets across regions.
• Configure and manage cloud security controls and protective services to safeguard applications and data from common threats while enforcing encryption standards and secure access policies.
• Build and operate event driven architectures using messaging and notification services to decouple components support asynchronous communication and improve system reliability and fault tolerance.
• Design and manage resilient application programming interfaces using managed gateway services to provide consistent routing authentication and throttling that support internal and external consumers.
• Apply well architected principles across reliability performance cost optimization operational excellence and security to continuously review and improve existing workloads and new designs.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning configuration and operations using command line tools software development kits and systems management capabilities to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• Collaborate with product owners application engineers and data teams in a hybrid work setting to translate requirements into scalable cloud solutions and provide technical guidance throughout project delivery.
• Monitor cloud workloads using centralized operations tooling to analyze performance metrics identify bottlenecks optimize resource usage and ensure adherence to day shift availability expectations.
• Document architecture patterns configuration standards and operational procedures so that teams can consistently deploy maintain and enhance cloud solutions without requiring travel or on site presence.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate eight to nine years of progressive experience in cloud solution design and implementation with a strong focus on architecting workloads on the AWS platform for enterprise environments.
• Bring hands on expertise with container orchestration and registry platforms combined with practical experience in managed relational and document database services for production workloads.
• Show advanced proficiency in designing and operating secure content delivery and edge protection solutions that integrate with certificate management and shield style security capabilities.
• Possess deep experience building scalable data pipelines and transformation jobs using modern extract transform and load tooling while integrating with analytics or reporting platforms.
• Use command line interfaces software development kits and systems management tools to automate infrastructure deployment configuration patching and environment consistency in hybrid work models.
• Apply structured knowledge of cloud architecture best practices including well architected frameworks to review workloads identify design gaps and propose actionable improvements that enhance business value.

Certifications Required

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate recommended for this cloud architect role.