What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many 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. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.
Position Summary
Plan, design, and implement seamless on-premises to Azure migrations while ensuring minimal disruption to existing services. This includes assessing the current infrastructure, selecting the appropriate Azure services, optimizing workloads for cloud performance, and executing a structured migration strategy. Additionally, we ensure thorough testing, security compliance, and post-migration validation to guarantee a smooth transition with minimal downtime.
Mandatory Skills
* Extensive experience in Microsoft Azure/AWS
* Design and review Azure Infrastructure architecture
* Create solution design artifacts for Azure Infrastructure includes Azure Kubernetes Services
* Strong understanding and experience in micro services based implementations in Docker / Kubernetes or Cloud based PaaS solutions
* Experience in Setting up Disaster Recovery for Cloud Environments
* 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
* Experience in Designing micro services architects with Dockers, Azure Containers, and Azure Kubernetes Services, LDAP, ADFS, Certificate Services ,OWIN, Graph API, Connector Space, Metaverse, setting up AD Synchronization rules would be added an Advantage
* Design and Migrate the OnPrem Infrastructure to Azure
* VM provisioning, PowerShell scripting, Dynamic and Static routing, Configuring Microsoft Internal / External Load Balancers
* Taking care of cloud transformations end to end, including Assessment and Migration
* 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
* Co-ordinate meetings, workshops, communications with various parties within and outside the organization to complete all tasks
* Manage communication and deliverables from offshore team
* Deliver best Practices around provisioning, operations and management of cloud environment
* Strong understanding in agile methodologies
* Knowledge on Azure DevOps and Other DevOps Platform - Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible
* Knowledge in Azure Data Services, RDBMS – SQL, Oracle
Roles And Responsibilities
* Provide guidance, standards, and recommendations to team
* Identify, communicate and mitigate the risks in the project
* Work with presales team to review the technical solutions
* Demonstrate strong analytical and Technical skillset
* Design / Provisioning of Azure Infrastructure
* Define standards and processes for Azure provisioning
* Leverage automation script/Manage script changes
Qualifications & Certification
* BE/B.Tech Computer Science or Equivalent degree
* AZ900 and AWS Solution Architect Associate
* VMWare Certified Professional
* Azure Certified Solution Architect
* AWS Solution Architect-Professional (SAP-C02)
* VMWare NSX-T 3.2 Fundamentals
* AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
Salary Range: >$100,000
Date of Posting: 18 March, 2025
Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
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