Senior VMware & Windows Infrastructure Architect - Remote

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Chicago (IL)

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USD 100.000 - 115.000

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Hace 6 días

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Descripción de la vacante

Cognizant is seeking a VMware & Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to join our CIO IT Solution Design team. This remote US role focuses on designing and governing enterprise infrastructure across cloud, virtualization, and on-premises environments.

The successful candidate will lead end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture initiatives, partnering with business stakeholders, application architects, cloud engineering teams, infrastructure delivery teams, and operations teams to

Formación

8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Solution Architecture, including end-to-end solution design, enterprise architecture development, and delivery of large-scale infrastructure transformation initiatives.
Expert-level experience with VMware, private cloud, and virtualization technologies, including the design, integration, and management of complex on-premises and hybrid infrastructure environments.
Strong expertise in infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, performance optimization, and workload assessment for greenfield deployments, migrations, and enterprise-scale environments.
Hands-on experience designing High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), storage, backup, and business continuity solutions that ensure resiliency, scalability, and operational stability.
Proven ability to translate business and technical requirements into architecture deliverables, including High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), infrastructure roadmaps, and Bills of Materials (BOMs).
Deep understanding of architecture governance, design reviews, technology evaluation, and solution trade-off analysis, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, and business objectives.
Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional stakeholder engagement, with the ability to collaborate effectively with business leaders, architects, engineering teams, operations teams, and executives while influencing strategic technology decisions and solution direction.

Responsabilidades

Lead end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture initiatives across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
Design scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions using VMware, Windows, compute, storage, networking, backup, and DR technologies.
Perform sizing, capacity planning, and architectural assessments for onboarding, migrations, and modernization programs.
Collaborate with application, cloud, database, and operations teams to develop integrated technology solutions.
Translate requirements into High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), BOMs, and implementation roadmaps.
Define architecture standards, governance, reference architectures, best practices, and governance frameworks.
Develop infrastructure roadmaps aligned with application strategies and long-term transformation goals.
Evaluate feasibility, risks, and trade-offs; provide recommendations balancing scale, performance, security, resiliency, and cost.
Provide architectural leadership across project lifecycles and ensure delivery and operational readiness.
Communicate strategies and concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences to drive consensus.