Remote VMware & Windows Infrastructure Architect

Cognizant; Denver (CO); 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 is seeking a highly experienced VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to join our CIO IT Solution Design team. This remote- USA position designs, governs, and evolves enterprise infrastructure solutions across cloud, virtualization, and on-premises environments.

The role leads end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture initiatives, partnering with stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective technology

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Solution Architecture.
• Expert-level VMware, private cloud, and virtualization expertise.
• Strong capacity planning and workload assessment skills.
• Hands-on HA/DR, storage, backup, and continuity experience.
• Ability to translate requirements into architecture deliverables (HLDs/LLDs).
• Governance, design reviews, and architecture trade-off analysis expertise.
• Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture initiatives across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Design scalable, secure, and available infrastructure using VMware, Windows, compute, storage, networking.
• Perform sizing, capacity planning, and architectural assessments for new deployments.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, database, and operations teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Create High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), BOMs, and implementation roadmaps.
• Define standards, reference architectures, governance frameworks to ensure consistency.
• Develop roadmaps aligned with business objectives and transformation goals.
• Evaluate feasibility, risks, and trade-offs; provide expert recommendations balancing cost and performance.
• Provide architectural leadership throughout projects and ensure operational readiness.
• Communicate architecture strategies to technical and non-technical audiences to drive consensus.

Skills

8+ yrs exp

VMware

Private cloud

Virtualization

Capacity planning

HA/DR

HLD/LLD

BOMs

Governance

Stakeholder leadership

Education

Post-graduate degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

VMware

Windows Server

Backup solutions

Storage

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a highly experienced VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to join our CIO IT Solution Design team. This remote- USA position designs, governs, and evolves enterprise infrastructure solutions across cloud, virtualization, and on-premises environments.

The role leads end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture initiatives, partnering with stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective technology