Remote VMware & Windows Infra Architect

Cognizant; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to join the CIO IT Solution Design team in a remote US role. This position designs, governs, and evolves enterprise infrastructure across cloud, virtualization, and on-premises environments, delivering secure, scalable technology solutions.

You will lead end-to-end architecture initiatives, translate business needs into architecture deliverables, and drive standards, roadmaps, and governance

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Solution Architecture.
• Expert-level experience with VMware, private cloud, and virtualization technologies.
• Strong expertise in infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, performance optimization, and workload assessment.
• Hands-on experience designing HA, DR, storage, and backup solutions.
• Proven ability to translate requirements into architecture deliverables (HLDs/LLDs/BOMs).
• Deep understanding of architecture governance, design reviews, and solution trade-offs.
• Leadership in cross-functional stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture initiatives across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• Design scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure using VMware, Windows, compute, storage, networking, backup, and DR technologies.
• Perform sizing, capacity planning, and architectural assessments for new onboarding, modernization, and migration efforts.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, database, and operations teams to develop integrated technology solutions.
• Develop High-Level Designs, Low-Level Designs, infrastructure roadmaps, and BOMs.
• Define technology standards, reference architectures, and governance frameworks across enterprise initiatives.
• Maintain infrastructure roadmaps aligned with business objectives and SLAs.
• Evaluate feasibility, complexity, risks, and trade-offs to balance scalability, performance, security, resiliency and cost.
• Provide architectural leadership throughout project lifecycles for successful delivery and operational readiness.
• Communicate strategies to technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive consensus.

Skills

VMware virtualization

Private cloud

Infrastructure sizing

Capacity planning

High Availability

Disaster Recovery

Architecture governance

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Post-graduate degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to join the CIO IT Solution Design team in a remote US role. This position designs, governs, and evolves enterprise infrastructure across cloud, virtualization, and on-premises environments, delivering secure, scalable technology solutions.

You will lead end-to-end architecture initiatives, translate business needs into architecture deliverables, and drive standards, roadmaps, and governance