Cognizant

AI Engg. Architect

Cognizant
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8 hours ago
Princeton, NJ, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design secure, scalable infrastructure blueprints for AI platforms and enterprise workloads using Terraform.
  • Develop reusable Terraform modules and templates for consistent infrastructure provisioning across environments.
  • Manage infrastructure lifecycle activities, including capacity forecasting, environment setup, optimization, and continuous improvement.
  • Analyze resource usage, storage patterns, and compute needs to balance resilience, performance, and cost.
  • Guide infrastructure-as-code adoption, including version control, peer review, and automated validation practices.
  • Integrate monitoring, logging, and alerting into AI infrastructure and support incident reviews and reliability improvements.
  • Collaborate with security, compliance, data engineering, and AI solution teams on regulated and data-intensive workloads.
  • Evaluate cloud services, infrastructure tooling, and automation techniques and document architectures, standards, and runbooks.
  • Enable secure remote access and consistent environments for hybrid work.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or architecture.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with Terraform infrastructure as code, including module design, state management, and cloud service integration.
  • Understanding of AI and data platform requirements, including compute-intensive workloads, data pipelines, storage, and high availability.
  • Experience designing automation, reliable infrastructure, and scalable enterprise application environments.
  • Finance and accounting domain knowledge is beneficial, particularly for sensitive data and analytical reporting use cases.
  • Experience working in hybrid delivery models with structured documentation and collaboration practices.
  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills for explaining infrastructure concepts to engineering and business stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with day-shift scheduling.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • Paid holidays and paid time off.
  • 401(k) plan and contributions.
  • Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive program based on performance.

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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

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.

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