Multi-Cloud Network Architect - Azure & AWS Expert

Cognizant; Plain City (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Cloud Network Architect to design secure, scalable network solutions across Azure, AWS, and on-premises architectures. You will lead multi-cloud connectivity, establish architecture standards, and collaborate with security, platform, and operations teams to deliver reliable hybrid networking.

Responsibilities include creating target-state architectures, leading migrations, and automating provisioning with IaC tools while ensuring monitoring and governance across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of enterprise network engineering experience.
• 4+ years designing Azure and AWS network solutions.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, DNS, DHCP, NAT, VPN, TLS, load balancing, firewalls, proxies, and segmentation.
• Hands-on experience with Azure VNet/ExpressRoute and AWS VPC/Direct Connect.
• IaC, Git-based delivery, CI/CD pipelines, cloud governance, and security controls.
• Ability to communicate architecture decisions, risks, and guidance to technical and business stakeholders.
• Industry certifications such as Azure and AWS networking qualifications and other major vendors.

Responsibilities

• Design target-state network architectures for Azure and AWS.
• Architect hub-and-spoke, transit, shared-services, and landing-zone patterns.
• Design hybrid connectivity using ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, VPN, SD-WAN, and carrier paths.
• Define routing, DNS, IPAM, NAT, firewall, and network segmentation standards.
• Implement secure connectivity with Azure Firewall, Network Security Groups, and AWS equivalents.
• Lead migrations, cutover planning, validation, and operational handover.
• Create diagrams, high/low level designs, and disaster-recovery patterns.
• Automate provisioning and policy enforcement with Terraform, Bicep/ARM, and CloudFormation.
• Establish monitoring and troubleshooting with Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, and centralized logging.
• Provide technical leadership for incident resolution, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and cost optimization.

Skills

Network engineering

Azure networking

AWS networking

TCP/IP

BGP

OSPF

DNS

VPN

Architecture decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering/IT

Tools

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

AWS CloudFormation

Git-based delivery

CI/CD pipelines

Azure Monitor

Network Watcher

Cloud logging platforms

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Cloud Network Architect to design secure, scalable network solutions across Azure, AWS, and on-premises architectures. You will lead multi-cloud connectivity, establish architecture standards, and collaborate with security, platform, and operations teams to deliver reliable hybrid networking.

Responsibilities include creating target-state architectures, leading migrations, and automating provisioning with IaC tools while ensuring monitoring and governance across