Remote VMware & Windows Infrastructure Architect

Cognizant; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to join the CIO IT Solution Design team. This remote USA role focuses on designing, governing, and evolving enterprise infrastructure across cloud, virtualization, and on-prem environments.

The successful candidate will lead end-to-end initiatives with stakeholders and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable technology solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Solution Architecture.
• Expert-level VMware, private cloud, and virtualization experience.
• Strong capacity planning and workload assessment.
• Hands-on HA/DR, storage, backup, and business continuity experience.
• Ability to translate requirements into architecture deliverables (HLDs/LLDs/BOMs).
• Knowledge of governance, design reviews, 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‑prem environments.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available infrastructure using VMware, Windows, storage, networking, and DR technologies.
• Perform sizing, capacity planning, and architectural assessments for onboarding and migrations.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, database, and operations teams to develop integrated technology solutions.
• Develop HLDs, LLDs, BOMs, and implementation roadmaps from business requirements.
• Define standards, governance, reference architectures, and best practices across enterprise initiatives.
• Develop roadmaps aligning application strategies with service commitments and transformation goals.
• Evaluate feasibility, risks, and trade-offs balancing scalability, performance, security, and cost.
• Provide architectural leadership ensuring delivery readiness and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Communicate strategies to technical and non-technical audiences to drive consensus.

Skills

8+ years exp

VMware

Private cloud

Capacity planning

HA/DR

Workload sizing

Architecture governance

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Post-graduate degree

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to join the CIO IT Solution Design team. This remote USA role focuses on designing, governing, and evolving enterprise infrastructure across cloud, virtualization, and on-prem environments.

The successful candidate will lead end-to-end initiatives with stakeholders and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable technology solutions.