Cloud Solution Architect For Azure Cloud

Cloud solution Architect for Azure cloud

Cognizant Digital Practice helps clients reinvent products, experiences, and business models to create new value, differentiation, and drive revenue in the digital economy. We take an Experience centered approach which uses human insights to take ideas from vision to outcome and building end to end experience led solutions that enables brands to transform their customer and employee experiences using design, marketing, and commerce capabilities.

Job Location: Everett - WA USA Or Remote

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, development, and architecture of Cloud solutions.
• Responsible for design and build Azure foundation setup.
• Deliver standard methodologies around provisioning, operations and management of cloud environment.
• Ensures that the cloud design is adhering to required standards, high availability & DR requirements and industry based compliance needs.
• Implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for Azure handled service environments.
• Design, architect, lead and build Proof of Concepts in Azure cloud.
• Optimize compute, network and storage, network connectivity method.
• Implement processes and quality improvements through task automation: Implement Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using ARM, Terraform.
• Ensure Cloud foundation is strong and with needed compliance requirements
• Assess the needs of handled identities, Service principals, and TLS Security, Oauth 2 Authentications, certificates or forms authentication
• Design & build Cloud SQL Databases, tiers, replication strategy

Key Qualifications:

• Experience in leading and delivering projects with application modernization and DevOps modernization themes. Should be comfortable working with onshore and offshore team members and delivering the work per project plan.
• Handle and direct technical teams on various technical aspects of the cloud program (on Cloud Design/Build/Run/Transformation/Transition/Migration)
• Work with the client to resolve technical issues/discrepancies and tackle problems, be a sounding board for technical solutions in the context of cloud
• Provide forward thinking thought leadership throughout the life of the program
• Proactively fix gaps in the overall transformation and run areas
• Experience on Azure IaaS & PaaS (Design and Implementation).
• Hands-on experience on leading large scale migration from on-premises environments into Azure using 6R techniques such as Rehosting, Re-platforming, Refactoring, etc. depending on the customer’s needs.
• Work with other Architects on Security, Data protection and loss strategy, Failover Failback strategy.
• Deliver standard processes around provisioning, operations and management of cloud environment.
• Ensures that the cloud design is adhering to required standards, high availability & DR requirements and industry based compliance needs.
• Create architecture diagrams of target public architectures based on best-practices and with customer requirements in mind; walkthrough diagrams with customer and gain agreement

Applications will be accepted until 04/15/2024.

The annual salary for this position is between $143,000.00 – $173,000.00 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

About Cognizant: Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a detailed global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of extraordinary companies that are leaders in their own space.

www.cognizant.com

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Mar 15 2024

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @USJobsCognizant.

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