Sr. Cloud Architect

Cognizant; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Sr Cloud Architect to design secure, scalable GCP-based solutions for banking clients within a hybrid work model. You will define cloud foundations, modernize applications, and establish best practices to deliver compliant, cost-efficient platforms supporting critical services.

Responsibilities include architecting VM services across Azure, AWS, and on-premises, ensuring security and compliance, and promoting higher-level solutions like containers to optimize footprint and

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing cloud architectures on GCP.
• Strong knowledge of security and compliance in cloud environments.
• Experience leading VM/platform teams and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud foundations and establish best practices using Cloud Foundation Toolkit.
• Architect VM services across Azure, AWS and on-premises.
• Ensure security, reliability and cost efficiency of platforms.
• Lead and collaborate with platform teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Security and compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Cost optimization

Tools

GCP

Azure

AWS

On-premises

Job description

Job Summary

Sr Cloud Architect role for a global organization focused on designing secure scalable and resilient solutions on GCP for retail banking clients with a hybrid work model and day shifts The role involves defining cloud foundations modernizing applications and establishing best practices using Cloud Foundation Toolkit to deliver compliant and cost efficient platforms that support critical banking services

Responsibilities

• Designing and standardizing VM services across Azure, AWS and on premises
• Ensuring security and compliance for these services
• Embedding VM services within the bank's broader technology ecosystem
• Optimizing for cost efficiency and operational excellence
• Promoting solutions higher in the stack like containers thus gradually limiting the footprint of virtual machines

Top responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership
• Define and evolve the architecture of the Virtual Machine platform
• Ensure scalability security reliability and maintainability of the platform
• Align platform architecture with enterprise standards and cloud best practices
• Cross Platform Collaboration
• Codevelop common guardrails standards and integration patterns with other compute and infrastructure architects
• Promote interoperability and consistency across VM environments Azure AWS on premises
• Share learnings and innovations across platform teamsTeam Leadership
• Co lead the VM platform team with the Product Owner and Tech Lead
• Guide engineers in implementing architectural decisions and platform capabilities
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Collaborate with security compute storage networking and application teams to ensure platform alignment with organizational needs
• Communicate architectural vision and roadmap to stakeholders and leadership

Certifications Required

Professional Cloud Architect GCP or equivalent cloud architect certification relevant to designing and operating solutions on GCP