Remote AWS Cloud Architect - Networking & Observability

Cognizant; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 79,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

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, and highly available AWS networking, monitoring, logging, and observability solutions across multi-account and multi-region cloud environments.

Responsibilities span Cloud Networking, Observability, and Compliance, including Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, X-Ray, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail, with CI/CD-driven deployment.

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 (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.
• 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.
• Configure tools to identify risks and support compliance audits.
• Develop automated reporting for PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, CIS.
• Implement CI/CD-driven deployment of networking, monitoring, and observability configurations.
• Collaborate with security, platform, and DevOps teams to drive cloud governance and operational excellence.

Skills

AWS X-Ray

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Route 53

VPC Flow Logs

Direct Connect

VPC Lattice

CDK

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, and highly available AWS networking, monitoring, logging, and observability solutions across multi-account and multi-region cloud environments.

Responsibilities span Cloud Networking, Observability, and Compliance, including Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, X-Ray, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail, with CI/CD-driven deployment.