Senior AWS Networking & Observability Architect (Remote)

Cognizant; Bridgewater Township (NJ); Remote; USD 79,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contribution

Paid holidays and PTO

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect – Networking & Observability in Bridgewater, NJ (Remote). You will design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure AWS networking, monitoring, logging, and observability across multi-account and multi-region environments.

Responsibilities include building hub-and-spoke networks with Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, and Network Firewall, plus centralized observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and CloudTrail with cross-account

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.
• Configure hybrid connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and VPN failover.
• Engineer highly available NAT Gateway and egress routing architectures.
• Implement advanced Route 53 configurations including split-horizon DNS and private hosted zones.
• Design inter-VPC connectivity using VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, and VPC Lattice.
• Implement AWS PrivateLink and Network Firewall for secure connectivity and traffic inspection.
• Implement CloudWatch metrics, logs, dashboards, alarms, and Logs Insights queries.
• Build distributed tracing with AWS X-Ray for microservices-based apps.
• Configure CloudTrail-based observability and audit logging.
• Design centralized logging with structured ingestion, S3 archival, retention, lifecycle policies.
• Develop dashboards with dynamic filtering and multi-region visibility.
• Configure advanced alerting using anomaly detection and composite alarms.

Skills

AWS X-Ray

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Route 53

VPC Flow Logs

Direct Connect

VPC Lattice

CDK

Cloud WAN

Transit Gateway

AWS Network Firewall

AWS PrivateLink

AWS Organizations

Splunk

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Tools

CDK

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect – Networking & Observability in Bridgewater, NJ (Remote). You will design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure AWS networking, monitoring, logging, and observability across multi-account and multi-region environments.

Responsibilities include building hub-and-spoke networks with Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, and Network Firewall, plus centralized observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and CloudTrail with cross-account