Principal AWS Cloud Architect — Networking & Observability

Cognizant; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 115,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and matching

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Principal AWS Cloud Architect to design, implement, and optimize scalable networking, monitoring, logging, and observability across multi-account and multi-region AWS environments. This remote role emphasizes high availability, security, and governance for enterprise workloads.

The candidate should have 12+ years of IT experience with deep AWS networking expertise, including Transit Gateway, CloudWAN, PrivateLink, and Route 53, plus hands-on observability

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years IT experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and networking expertise.

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 (Private VIFs, LAGs) and VPN failover solutions.
• Engineer highly available NAT Gateway and egress routing architectures.
• Implement advanced Route 53 configurations including split-horizon DNS, private hosted zones, and conditional forwarding.
• 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.
• Develop dashboards with dynamic filtering, multi-service correlation, and multi-region visibility.
• Enable cross-account observability using AWS Organizations and centralized monitoring accounts.
• Design centralized logging architectures with structured log ingestion, S3 archival, retention, and lifecycle policies.
• Configure 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 CI/CD-driven deployment of networking, monitoring, and observability configurations.

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

Education

12-15+ years IT experience with strong AWS cloud infrastructure and networking expertise

Tools

Splunk

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Principal AWS Cloud Architect to design, implement, and optimize scalable networking, monitoring, logging, and observability across multi-account and multi-region AWS environments. This remote role emphasizes high availability, security, and governance for enterprise workloads.

The candidate should have 12+ years of IT experience with deep AWS networking expertise, including Transit Gateway, CloudWAN, PrivateLink, and Route 53, plus hands-on observability