Cloud architect

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful. And this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for a Cloud Architect to join our Infrastructure Support Team.  

About Cognizant 

Large enterprises need to make their IT infrastructure and processes cloud ready today to reap the full benefits tomorrow. Core Infrastructure Management (CIM) is a broad offering that enables businesses to extract value from existing systems by modernizing technology, reimagining processes and transforming user experiences.

From networking to data-centre consolidation and hybrid cloud implementations, CIM encompasses a complete “cloud-smart” strategy. An agile IT infrastructure enables you to scale and adapt to changing needs within a secure hybrid or pure cloud platform.

About the role

 As a Cloud Architect you will be responsible for the below given activities:

• Design and review Azure Infrastructure architecture including the migration of On prem environment
• Strong understanding and experience in Micro services-based implementations in Docker / Kubernetes or Cloud based PaaS solutions.
• Define standards and processes for Azure provisioning.
• Leverage automation script/Manage script changes
• Design Azure DevOps Strategy
• Build a DevOps Process as per the project requirements on Azure DevOps
• Automate the E2E Infrastructure Provisioning through IaC framework - ARM , Terraform, Azure CLI & PowerShell
• Recommend a migration solution and consolidation strategy with Azure DevOps Tools
• Managing Infrastructure configuration and secrets
• Manage security and compliance with Azure DevOps

Our ideal candidate

We are looking for someone with thorough experience in Designing micro services architects with Dockers, Azure Containers, and Azure Kubernetes Services. In addition to that we need someone with;

• Experience in migrating the Infrastructure Workloads (VMs, Applications, Databases, etc.) to Azure
• Experience in Recording Machine IOPS and Allocating VM based on client workloads
• Experience in Network monitoring using tools like Fiddler and Wireshark, Experience in Azure Backup strategy, Experience in setting up Domain Controllers, Configuring AD Application Proxy.
• VM provisioning, PowerShell scripting, Dynamic and Static routing, Configuring Microsoft Internal / External Load Balancers,
• Configuring VNets, Subnets, Configuring Azure Active Directory Sync, Configuring Network Security Groups (NGS), Access Control Lists (ACL),
• Configuring NICs, Configuring High Availability of SQL Servers, and Setting up Disaster Recovery for Cloud Environments

Good to have

• LDAP, ADFS, OWIN, Graph API, Connector Space, Metaverse, setting up AD Synchronization rules would be added an Advantage
• Knowledge on Azure DevOps and Other DevOps Platform - Jenkins , Puppet , Ansible
• Knowledge in Azure Data Services , RDBMS – SQL , Oracle

What you can expect 

• Become part of a the ´flag ship´ success story – We go through enormous growth
• Based in the Nordics - we have offices in Norway, Denmark and Sweden in a European and Global Network
• Organization driven by technology – We have a tremendous technology backbone.
• Open, ´can do´ team spirit.
• Environment where you can make your own ideas reality.
• To work on various challenging client and projects