Remote VMware & Windows Infra Architect

Cognizant; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a VMware & Windows Infrastructure Architect to design and govern enterprise infrastructure solutions across cloud, virtualization, and on-prem environments. This remote-US role demands leadership across cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures.

The candidate will translate business needs into technical designs, develop HLDs/LLDs, and guide governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Solution Architecture.
• Expert-level VMware, private cloud, and virtualization experience.
• Strong expertise in infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience designing HA, DR, storage, backup, and business continuity solutions.
• Proven ability to translate business and technical requirements into architecture deliverables (HLDs/LLDs/BOMs).
• Deep understanding of architecture governance, design reviews, technology evaluation, and trade-off analysis.
• Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture initiatives for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available infrastructure using VMware, Windows, compute, storage, networking, and backup technologies.
• Perform sizing, capacity planning, and architectural assessments for onboarding, migrations, and modernization programs.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, database, and operations teams to develop integrated solutions.
• Develop High-Level Designs, Low-Level Designs, roadmaps, and BOMs.
• Define architecture standards, governance, and reference architectures to ensure alignment with standards.

Skills

VMware expertise

Infrastructure sizing

Capacity planning

HA/DR design

Governance & design reviews

Leadership & stakeholder engagement

Translate requirements into designs

Education

Post-graduate degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

VMware vSphere

Private cloud

Cloud platforms

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a VMware & Windows Infrastructure Architect to design and govern enterprise infrastructure solutions across cloud, virtualization, and on-prem environments. This remote-US role demands leadership across cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures.

The candidate will translate business needs into technical designs, develop HLDs/LLDs, and guide governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and