AWS Cloud Architect: Networking & Observability (Remote)

Cognizant; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 79,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contribution

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in Bridgewater, NJ (Remote) seeks 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 cloud environments.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in IT with hands-on AWS networking expertise; you will drive governance with security, DevOps teams, and CI/CD deployments of infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years 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.
• Implement AWS PrivateLink and Network Firewall solutions to enable secure connectivity and traffic inspection.
• Design inter-VPC connectivity using VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, and VPC Lattice.
• Implement CloudWatch metrics, logs, dashboards, alarms, and Logs Insights queries.
• Build distributed tracing solutions using AWS X-Ray for microservices-based applications.
• Configure CloudTrail-based API observability and audit logging.
• Design centralized logging architectures with structured log ingestion, S3 archival, retention, and lifecycle policies.
• Develop dashboards with dynamic filtering, multi-service correlation, and multi-region visibility.
• Configure advanced alerting using anomaly detection, composite alarms, and threshold tuning.
• Enable cross-account observability using AWS Organizations and centralized monitoring accounts.

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

Grafana

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Cognizant in Bridgewater, NJ (Remote) seeks 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 cloud environments.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in IT with hands-on AWS networking expertise; you will drive governance with security, DevOps teams, and CI/CD deployments of infrastructure.