AWS Cloud Architect – Networking & Observability (Remote)

Cognizant; Charleston (WV); Hybrid; USD 79,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contribution

Paid holidays and PTO

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect – Networking & Observability to design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure AWS networking, monitoring, logging, and observability across multi-account and multi-region environments. 10+ years of experience and strong Terraform/CI/CD deployment are preferred.

The role involves hybrid work from Bridgewater, NJ with remote flexibility, and participation in Cognizant’s incentive program.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of IT experience with strong AWS cloud infrastructure and networking expertise.
• Hands-on design of enterprise-scale AWS networking solutions.
• Knowledge of DNS, routing, firewalls, VPNs, hybrid connectivity, and network segmentation.
• Experience building enterprise observability and logging platforms.
• Experience with PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, CIS compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-VPC architectures and optimized CIDR allocation across AWS accounts/regions.
• Implement hub-and-spoke architectures using Transit Gateway and Cloud WAN with segmentation controls.
• Configure Direct Connect, VPN failover, NAT gateway and egress routing.
• Design inter-VPC connectivity with VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, and VPC Lattice.
• Implement PrivateLink and Network Firewall for secure connectivity and inspection.
• Develop observability: CloudWatch metrics/logs/dashboards, X-Ray tracing, and CloudTrail observability.
• Build centralized logging with S3 archival, retention policies, and multi-region visibility.
• Create dashboards with cross-service correlation and dynamic filtering; set alerting with anomalies.

Tools

AWS X-Ray

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Route 53

VPC Flow Logs

Direct Connect

VPC Lattice

Cloud WAN

Transit Gateway

AWS Network Firewall

AWS PrivateLink

AWS Organizations

Splunk

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect – Networking & Observability to design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure AWS networking, monitoring, logging, and observability across multi-account and multi-region environments. 10+ years of experience and strong Terraform/CI/CD deployment are preferred.

The role involves hybrid work from Bridgewater, NJ with remote flexibility, and participation in Cognizant’s incentive program.