Senior AWS Networking & Observability Architect

Cognizant; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 79,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contribution

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect focusing on Networking and Observability. You will design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure, and highly available AWS networking, monitoring, logging, and observability solutions across multi-account and multi-region cloud environments.

Your role involves architecting cloud networking, implementing hub-and-spoke models, hybrid connectivity, and advanced observability to enable cross-account visibility and governance.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of IT experience with strong AWS cloud infrastructure and networking expertise.
• Hands-on experience designing enterprise-scale AWS networking solutions.
• Strong knowledge of DNS, routing, firewalls, VPNs, hybrid connectivity, and network segmentation.
• Experience building and managing enterprise observability and logging platforms.
• Experience supporting compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, and CIS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-VPC architectures with optimized CIDR allocation across AWS accounts and regions.
• Implement hub-and-spoke architectures using AWS Transit Gateway and Cloud WAN with route segmentation and propagation controls.
• Configure hybrid connectivity using AWS Direct Connect (Private VIFs, LAGs) and VPN failover solutions.
• Engineer highly available NAT Gateway and egress routing architectures.
• Implement AWS PrivateLink and Network Firewall solutions to enable secure connectivity and traffic inspection.
• Implement CloudWatch metrics, logs, dashboards, alarms, and Logs Insights queries.
• Build distributed tracing solutions using AWS X-Ray for microservices-based applications.
• Configure CloudTrail-based API observability and audit logging.
• Design centralized logging architectures with structured log ingestion, S3 archival, retention, and lifecycle policies.
• Develop dashboards with dynamic filtering, multi-service correlation, and multi-region visibility.
• Configure advanced alerting using anomaly detection, composite alarms, and threshold tuning.
• Enable cross-account observability using AWS Organizations and centralized monitoring accounts.
• Configure tools to identify risks and support compliance audits.
• Develop automated reporting for PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, and CIS compliance requirements.
• Implement CI/CD-driven deployment of networking, monitoring, and observability configurations.
• Collaborate with security, platform, and DevOps teams to drive cloud governance and operational excellence.

Skills

AWS X-Ray

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Route 53

VPC Flow Logs

Direct Connect

VPC Lattice

Cloud WAN

Transit Gateway

AWS Network Firewall

AWS PrivateLink

AWS Organizations

Splunk

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect focusing on Networking and Observability. You will design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure, and highly available AWS networking, monitoring, logging, and observability solutions across multi-account and multi-region cloud environments.

Your role involves architecting cloud networking, implementing hub-and-spoke models, hybrid connectivity, and advanced observability to enable cross-account visibility and governance.