Senior Network Architect - Remote & Cloud/Data Center

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Carson City (NV)

Remote

USD 99,000 - 116,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, secure, operate, and optimize enterprise networks across datacenter, campus, branch, wireless, and hybrid-cloud environments.

You will lead major-incident troubleshooting, migrations, and lifecycle upgrades while collaborating with security, cloud, application, server, and architecture teams to ensure secure, scalable connectivity.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of enterprise network engineering with senior/L3 experience.
Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, VLANs, STP, VPN, QoS, NAT, and wireless.
Hands-on production experience with F5 BIG-IP LTM, Palo Alto, Cisco ACI/APIC, Nexus, Meraki.
Experience with Azure and/or AWS networking and private connectivity.
Experience with Infoblox DDI, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, and network automation.
Strong communication and incident/change coordination skills.

Responsibilities

Own complex P1/P2 incidents involving routing, switching, wireless, and VPN.
Lead troubleshooting, capture analysis, root-cause, and permanent fixes.
Prepare and execute migration, validation, risk, and rollback plans.
Maintain network diagrams, standards, inventory, and disaster recovery docs.
Participate in on-call support, vulnerability remediation, and vendor escalation.
Collaborate with security, cloud, application, server, and architecture teams.