Senior AWS Architect

Description

Cognizant Technology Solutions is currently seeking a highly skilled Senior AWS Architect who will be responsible for AWS cloud migration, Data Center Migration and Network engineering.

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: • Study existing technology landscape and understand current application workloads. • Understand and document technical requirements from clients• Define migration strategy to move application to cloud• Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation. Create a bill of materials, including required Cloud Services (such as EC2, S3 etc.) and tools• Design the overall Virtual Private Cloud VPC environment including server instance, storage instances, subnets, availability zones etc.• Design the AWS network architecture including VPN connectivity between regions and subnets• Design the HA / DR strategies• Set up process, services, and tools around cloud• Oversee build of the environment• Execute migration plan• Leverage appropriate AWS services• Validate the environment to meets all security and compliance controls.

Required Skills/Qualifications: • 12+ years total experience in system administration, network engineering with min 4 years in AWS Architect.• Excellent working knowledge of AWS Services, Compute, Relational and NoSQL Databases, Caching, Object and Block Storage, Scaling, Load Balancing, CDNs, Networking etc.• Managing full AWS lifecycle, provisioning, automation and security• Assessing client's workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap.• Experience in designing cloud networks, multitenant, including On-premises and external services connectivity. • Defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint• Provisioning and spinning up AWS clusters• Building scalable production systems (load balancers, Memcached, master / slave architectures)• Key AWS services like EC2, S3 etc.• AWS platform and tools• Best practices and market trends pertaining to cloud and overall industry.• To provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.) and how to mentor team to build necessary competence• Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness with key stakeholders in client organization

Preferred Skills/Qualification: • Certification on AWS architecture.• AWS Networking Services • Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

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.