Senior Cloud & Network Solutions Architect; Hybrid

Senior Cloud & Network Solutions Architect (Hybrid)

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Our practice is seeking a highly qualified Senior Cloud & Network Solutions Architect (Hybrid) with experience in developing and building impactful, scalable, enterprise applications. Our developers have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users.

Our developers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers. We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 2 to 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Dallas, TX.

Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

Location: Dallas, Texas (Onsite)

Legal Requirement: You must be legally authorized to work in the USA without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

• Architect and deliver large-scale cloud-native and digital transformation solutions for Tier 1 telecom operators.
• Design and implement interoperable OSS/BSS solutions leveraging TM Forum standards.
• Lead modernization initiatives including CI/CD pipelines and observability improvements.
• Own platform architecture ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align IT strategy with business goals.
• Drive automation to reduce MTTR, improve SLA compliance, and optimize operational efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices for telecom and cloud environments.
• Mentor and guide teams on architecture principles and emerging technologies.

• Telecom Architecture & Standards
• OSS/BSS systems (Billing, CRM, Service Assurance, Provisioning, Mediation)
• TM Forum standards (eTOM, SID, TAM, Open APIs, ODA)
• 3
  
  GPP & GSMA standards
• ORAN SMO specifications
• ETSI MANO orchestration frameworks

• 4G, 5G, Open RAN, transport and core network architectures
• VoLTE, Vo Wi Fi , VoNR systems
• SDN and NFV (Virtual Network Functions onboarding)
• SD-WAN (Velo Cloud, Cisco, Silverpeak)
• SASE solutions (Zscaler, Palo Alto)

• AWS, Azure, GCP
• Kubernetes orchestration
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud security best practices (Zero Trust, least privilege)

• API platforms (real-time, high-volume)
• Automation for operational efficiency
• Monitoring tools (Grafana, Datadog, AWS Cloud Watch, Splunk, ELK, Prometheus)

Applications will be accepted until February 2, 2026.

The annual salary for this position is between $113,459 – $195,000, depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

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

• 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.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Information Technology

Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting and Business Consulting and Services