Remote VMware & Windows Infrastructure Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a seasoned VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to join the CIO IT Solution Design team. This role leads end-to-end infrastructure architecture initiatives across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.

You will design scalable, secure solutions, guide capacity planning, HA/DR, and governance while translating business needs into High-Level and Low-Level Designs and roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Infrastructure Solution Architecture.
• Expert-level VMware, private cloud, and virtualization knowledge.
• Capacity planning, performance optimization, and workload assessment.
• Hands-on HA, DR, storage, backup, and business continuity solutions.
• Translate requirements into architecture deliverables (HLDs/LLDs/BOMs).
• Governance, design reviews, evaluation, and trade-off analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture initiatives for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available infrastructure solutions leveraging VMware, Windows, compute, storage, networking, backup, and DR.
• Perform infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, and assessments for onboarding, migrations, and modernization.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, database, and operations teams to create integrated technology solutions.
• Translate business needs into architecture deliverables including HLDs, LLDs, BOMs, and roadmaps.
• Define standards, governance, reference architectures, best practices, and governance frameworks.
• Develop roadmaps supporting application strategies, SLAs, and long-term transformation goals.
• Evaluate feasibility, risks, and trade-offs to balance scalability, performance, security, resiliency, and cost.
• Provide architectural leadership across project lifecycles and ensure operational readiness.

Skills

8+ years experience

VMware expertise

Capacity planning

HA & DR

Governance & design

Stakeholder leadership

Solution architecture

Tools

VMware vSphere

Windows Server

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a seasoned VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to join the CIO IT Solution Design team. This role leads end-to-end infrastructure architecture initiatives across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.

You will design scalable, secure solutions, guide capacity planning, HA/DR, and governance while translating business needs into High-Level and Low-Level Designs and roadmaps.