AWS Cloud Architect: Networking & Observability (Remote)

Cognizant; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 79,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan

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 AWS networking, monitoring, logging, and observability across multi-account and multi-region cloud environments. You will work on hub-and-spoke networking, Direct Connect, VPN failover, and advanced CloudWatch/CloudTrail observability.

The role requires 10+ years of hands-on AWS experience, strong governance and automation skills, and collaboration with security and

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of IT experience with strong AWS cloud infrastructure and networking expertise.
• Hands-on experience designing enterprise-scale AWS networking solutions.
• Strong knowledge of DNS, routing, firewalls, VPNs, hybrid connectivity, and network segmentation.
• Experience building and managing enterprise observability and logging platforms.
• Experience supporting compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, and CIS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-VPC architectures with optimized CIDR allocation across AWS accounts and regions.
• Implement hub-and-spoke architectures using AWS Transit Gateway and Cloud WAN with route segmentation and propagation controls.
• Configure hybrid connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and VPN failover solutions.
• Engineer highly available NAT Gateway and egress routing architectures.
• Design inter-VPC connectivity using VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, and VPC Lattice.
• Implement AWS PrivateLink and Network Firewall solutions to enable secure connectivity and traffic inspection.

Skills

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 / Grafa​

Tools

Splunk

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect – Networking & Observability to design, implement, and optimize scalable AWS networking, monitoring, logging, and observability across multi-account and multi-region cloud environments. You will work on hub-and-spoke networking, Direct Connect, VPN failover, and advanced CloudWatch/CloudTrail observability.

The role requires 10+ years of hands-on AWS experience, strong governance and automation skills, and collaboration with security and