Senior AWS Cloud Architect – Networking & Observability (Remote)

Cognizant; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contribution

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Principal AWS Cloud Architect to design and optimize scalable AWS networking, observability, and compliance across multi-account, multi-region environments. This remote role emphasizes robust security, reliability, and automation with CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, and centralized logging.

The candidate will lead architecture decisions for hybrid connectivity, DNS, routing, and firewall configurations while partnering with security and DevOps to enforce

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and networking.
• Hands-on enterprise-scale AWS networking design experience.
• Strong DNS, routing, firewalls, VPNs, and hybrid connectivity knowledge.
• Experience building observability and logging platforms for large orgs.
• Familiarity with PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, CIS compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-account, multi-region AWS networking architectures.
• Implement hub-and-spoke models with Transit Gateway and Cloud WAN.
• Build observability with CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, and centralized logging.
• Collaborate on CI/CD deployments for networking and monitoring configurations.

Skills

AWS Cloud Architecture

Networking & Observability

AWS X-Ray

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Route 53

Transit Gateway

Direct Connect

VPC Lattice

AWS PrivateLink

AWS Organizations

Tools

Splunk

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Principal AWS Cloud Architect to design and optimize scalable AWS networking, observability, and compliance across multi-account, multi-region environments. This remote role emphasizes robust security, reliability, and automation with CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, and centralized logging.

The candidate will lead architecture decisions for hybrid connectivity, DNS, routing, and firewall configurations while partnering with security and DevOps to enforce