Cognizant Technology Solutions is currently seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Infrastructure Architect who will be responsible for Thought leadership, with ability to get their hands into the building process and issue resolution for our Infrastructure Services Organization, with these responsibilities:

Summary: Responsible for designing and implementing information systems that will meet or exceed the needs of enterprise infrastructure for our clients. Analyzes system requirements and defines systems architecture that will meet business needs, including cloud, hybrid-cloud, server infrastructure, capacity planning, storage requirements, and networking protocols, information security standards and regulatory compliance. Ensures that architecture project rollouts meet security and architectural standards. Assist in the development and continuous improvements of migration methodologies contributing to successful transformational migrations. Will supervise and guide the work of lower-level architects. Works on the largest and most complex infrastructure architecture projects sometimes in parallel more than one at a time. Requires a bachelor's degree or its equivalent. Typically reports to Manager and Program managers during project phase, while reporting directly to Head of Enterprise Architect group. Works on advanced, complex technical projects or business issues requiring state of the art technical or industry knowledge. Works autonomously. Goals are generally communicated in solution or project goal terms. Will also provide a leadership role for the work group through knowledge in the area of specialization.

 
Responsibilities: 

•    Responsible for developing and driving the infrastructure roadmap for clients as their enterprise architect providing strategies including hybrid-cloud, standardization and modernization of legacy environments, Greenfield datacenter builds, migration and operational optimization strategies and processes across all aspects of infrastructure

•    Partner with Track/Tower Architecture teams to implement corporate/enterprise infrastructure initiatives

•    Analyze the risks, benefits and opportunities associated with architectural strategies align to CTS Architecture Review Board, and champion a balanced approach with a focus on operational functionality

•    Lead, and build consensus among infrastructure teams, in the design and development of infrastructure building blocks for simplicity, availability, performance, integrity, stability and scalability of global enterprise systems

•    Develop and continuously improve Migration Methodologies 

•    Lead, guide, coach and mentor peers and lower level architects on design standards, implementation strategies and best practices

•    Provide expertise and leadership in problem solving, root cause analysis during systems outages, and championing a methodological approach to troubleshooting

•    Engage with management, infrastructure peers, business and project stakeholders to understand system requirements and advise stakeholders on options, risks, business impacts and cost-benefits

•    Communicate with stakeholders at all levels to inform them of architecture strategies and roadmaps

•    Participate in the governance of projects or initiatives to close the gaps between current and future-state architectures

•    Work with the infrastructure engineering teams to evolve and mature enterprise IT infrastructure

 
Required Qualifications:

•    Excellent communication skills – able to speak or present to Executives, business and technical leaders; able to represent complex ideas with effective documents and visuals and to adapt presentations to the expectations and background of the audience

•    Ability to get hands into systems for building or complex problem resolution 

•    Ability to collaborate- able to work effectively with others on common tasks; build rapport, gain support, instill confidence, take actions which respect the needs and contributions of others; find common ground; negotiate win-win solutions; and share credit with others

•    Applied knowledge of networking, Load Balancing, and network security technologies (Cisco, F5, NetScaler)

•    Applied working knowledge of Windows Servers all generations, including Active Directory 

•    Applied working knowledge of popular Unix/Linux 

•    Applied knowledge of server hardware and virtualization technologies (Cisco UCS, DellEMC, HPE, VMware, vRealize suite and NSX, VxRail, Nutanix, etc.)

•    Applied knowledge of VDI and hyperconverged architectures and SDI Software Defined Infrastructure

•    Applied knowledge of cloud technologies of one or more Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) including VMware Private Cloud and automation. Understanding of vSAN Private cloud, etc.)

•    Applied knowledge of high availability infrastructure designs and methodologies

•    Applied knowledge of systems monitoring, capacity planning and performance tuning

•    Working knowledge of DevOps (Puppet, Chef, Anisible, Jenkins)

 
 Education and Certifications:

•    20+ years’ experience in IT to include lead and senior roles

•    10 years Infrastructure Consulting experience

•    Current technical certifications preferred (VMware, NSX, Horizon, other relevant certifications) 

•    Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, information systems or related discipline demonstrated 7+ years related work experience

Other Requirements/Skills:

•    Exceptional decision making and problem solving skills

•    Exceptional personal time management, planning and organizational 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’re comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you.

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