Principal Cloud Platform Architect - Onsite

* Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

About Us:

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.

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Intelligent, IoT-enabled products will soon result in the proliferation of data and disrupt virtually all industries. To be successful, both large and small companies must leverage IoT capabilities by designing modern products that fundamentally connect people with processes. Within Cognizant IOT, we engineer industry-aligned, IoT-enabled products that merge industry needs with human drivers. Our intelligent products will revolutionize experiences and result in exciting, transformative outcomes.

Without human-centered thinking, connected products are just standalone things—but with it, our modern connected products facilitate a unified way of life enjoyed by all.

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Cloud Platform Architect to drive the operational maturity and scalability of our CONNECT Platform. This is a strategic, hands-on role focused on improving platform reliability, performance, scalability, resiliency, and cloud cost efficiency across Azure and AWS environments.

You will partner closely with Architecture, COE, Engineering, Testing, and Operations teams to identify systemic challenges, validate architectural solutions, and establish best practices for operating large-scale cloud-native platforms. This role emphasizes technical leadership through influence, innovation, and collaboration rather than direct authority.

• Research, define, and validate cloud-native architectural patterns that improve scalability, reliability, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives across Kubernetes-based environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic platform improvements.

• Design and optimize large-scale deployments on Azure AKS and AWS EKS.
• Develop advanced workload scheduling, auto-scaling, and resource optimization strategies.
• Improve multi-tenant platform architectures and operational efficiency.
• Ensure optimal utilization of compute, storage, and networking resources.

• Architect highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
• Define disaster recovery and resiliency strategies for cloud-native applications.
• Establish reliability engineering practices to proactively prevent production issues.
• Improve platform observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring frameworks.

• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives without compromising system performance.
• Analyze infrastructure consumption patterns and develop scalable cost-control models.
• Identify platform bottlenecks and recommend architectural improvements.

• Partner with validation and system test teams to design large-scale performance and resiliency test scenarios.
• Simulate real-world customer workloads and production-scale environments.
• Validate interactions between distributed system components under stress conditions.

• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and architectural prototypes.
• Mentor…