AWS Solution Architect

Description

Cognizant Technology Solutions is currently seeking a highly skilled AWS Solution Architect who will be responsible for managing end to end AWS platform.

Are you ready to be a change-maker? At Cognizant, we believe those who challenge the way they work today will lead the way tomorrow!

Ability to work independently and remotely, with willingness travel for client engagements as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy new software and upgrades and complete fixes within the production environment.
• Make modules ready for production, moving them according to specific procedures and documenting knowledge transfer.
• Evaluate existing applications and platforms and give recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis
• Identify the most practical alternative solutions and assisting with modifications.
• Provide direct server support during various operations such as deployment and general production.
• Create custom scripts and code using languages such as JavaScript, Java, NodeJS, Python, Bash script, and PowerShell etc.
• Accelerate cloud adoption by influencing and standardizing reusable patterns to develop prebuilt solutions or automation templates
• Develop workload specific migration templates
• Design, implement and test agreed-upon infrastructures.
• Expertise in at least two or more tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Azure DevOps and Atlassian tools
• Ability to provision infrastructure using Cloud Formation or Terraform.
• Automating deployment of applications, system configurations and security settings.
• Prioritizing requests from operations, development and product teams.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• 14+ years of overall Infrastructure Architecture experience along with 3-4 years of AWS Cloud experience.
• Experience in migrating large scale customer facing applications from on premise to AWS environment.
• Aptitude to be a good team player and the willingness to learn and implement new cloud technologies as needed.
• Good Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure concepts and data center load balancing technologies, Networking and TCP/IP Server hardware configuration and Standard Internet services, such as DNS, HTTP, etc.
• Methodical approach to troubleshooting complex problems.
• Knowledge of Linux or windows scripting languages, such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell etc.
• Monitoring and Instrumentation DevOps toolchain Technical and Professional Expertise.
• Extensive and current AWS DevOps best practices and tooling expertise.

Preferred Skills/Qualification:

• Cloud Architecture and Strategy standardization of reference architecture / identification of reusable composite patterns to develop prebuilt solutions or automation templates / Identify opportunities to accelerate cloud adoption
• DevOps / Cloud Engineers with automation expertise (IaC, Terraform, AWS Public cloud)
• Development of terraform modules / blueprints, security patterns, deployable full stack templates; build and maintain the adoption landing zone in conjunction with governance requirements

Home office setup (network, phone, etc.) Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration.

If you are comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you.