20 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and implement AWS landing zones, multi-account structures, and platform foundations using Control Tower and Organizations.
- Define infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and reusable Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code modules.
- Architect enterprise AWS networking, including Transit Gateway, VPCs, VPN, Direct Connect, Route 53, PrivateLink, IPAM, and egress controls.
- Establish governance, security, identity, compliance, tagging, and security-baseline frameworks.
- Drive multi-AZ and multi-region reliability, disaster recovery, backup, capacity, observability, and SLO practices.
- Own cloud cost governance, including budgeting, rightsizing, optimization, and chargeback/showback models.
- Lead infrastructure delivery programs, proofs of concept, automation, migrations, and consolidation efforts.
- Mentor engineers, conduct architecture and code reviews, and improve engineering maturity.
- Engage senior stakeholders, review boards, vendors, and cloud providers on design and roadmap decisions.
- Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for high-impact incidents and drive corrective actions.
Requirements
- 6–10 years of cloud infrastructure experience with deep hands-on AWS expertise at enterprise scale.
- Strong architecture experience across AWS compute, storage, networking, identity, and managed services.
- Expertise in Terraform module and framework design, CI/CD, and policy-as-code.
- Experience with AWS landing zones, multi-account governance, Control Tower, and Organizations.
- Deep networking knowledge covering hybrid connectivity, routing/BGP, segmentation, DNS, IPAM, egress control, service limits, and capacity planning.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, zero-trust principles, governance, and compliance frameworks.
- Experience leading delivery and mentoring engineers, with strong stakeholder communication skills.
- Automation proficiency with Python, boto3, and AWS CLI.
- Preferred: Azure or GCP and multi-cloud governance experience.
- Preferred: EKS or ECS, GitOps, platform engineering, egress/SASE tooling such as Zscaler, IP remediation, orchestration-based provisioning, and account-vending automation.
- Preferred certifications include AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer – Professional, or Advanced Networking – Specialty.
Benefits
- Hybrid work requiring 2–3 days per week in a client or Cognizant office in Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bangalore, or Coimbatore.
- Wellbeing programs and support for work-life balance.
About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.