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Cloud Architect

Permanent Employment

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 in Kristiansand, Drammen/Oslo.

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

• Define standards and processes for Azure provisioning.

• Leverage automation script/Manage script changes

• Design Azure DevOps Strategy and build a DevOps Process as per the project requirements

• Automate the E2E Infrastructure Provisioning through IaC framework - ARM , Terraform, Azure CLI & PowerShell

• Manage security and compliance with Azure DevOps

Our ideal candidate

We are looking for someone with thorough experience on the below given activities

• Gathering the client requirement and planning the end target operating model

• To drive the team on implementing the target operating model

• Experience in migrating the Infrastructure Workloads (VMs, Applications, Databases, etc.) to Azure

• Experience in Recording Machine IOPS and Allocating VM based on client workloads

• 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

• Identify various automations and innovations opportunity and to help the ground team to drive the same

• To collaborate with various practices for implementing new technologies and solutions across Infrastructure and Security service lines

Good to have

Project Management on Devops, Agile methodologies

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

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.