Remote VMware & Windows Infrastructure Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Salt Lake City (UT); 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

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to design and govern enterprise infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. The role focuses on scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions with emphasis on VMware, Windows platforms, HA/DR, and capacity planning.

The position offers a remote-US work model with eligibility for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program.

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 High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (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 across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available infrastructure solutions using VMware, Windows, compute, storage, networking, backup, and DR.
• Perform sizing, capacity planning, and architectural assessments for onboarding and migrations.
• Collaborate with architecture, cloud engineering, database, and operations teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Develop HLDs, LLDs, infrastructure blueprints, BOMs, and implementation roadmaps.
• Define standards, principles, reference architectures, and governance frameworks.

Skills

VMware & virtualization

Capacity planning

HA/DR

Storage

Backup

Governance

Leadership

Translate requirements into designs

Education

Post-graduate degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

VMware

Windows Server

Private cloud

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to design and govern enterprise infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. The role focuses on scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions with emphasis on VMware, Windows platforms, HA/DR, and capacity planning.

The position offers a remote-US work model with eligibility for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program.