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 Azure 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 activties

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

Contact Jeanne Arentoft (jeanne.arentoft@cognizant.com) for more information.

The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world. We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen. We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right. We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.

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 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:
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.

Disclaimer: 
Compensation 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.

Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.