COCognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
AKS Architect - Solution Architect
Chennai ₹31-42 LPA Posted 3 Nov 2026
FULL TIME
Ansible
Microsoft Azure
Puppet
High Availability
Terraform
+6 more
Job Description
AKS Architect – SM Level
Level – SM Level – 12 Years to 16 Years
Location – Chennai & Bangalore
Shift timing - European (CET)
JD details : - AKS Architect
Please find the JD for AKS Architect
AKS Architect: Develop Azure cloud reference architecture and define
the target state cloud architecture. Bring experience with private and public cloud
architectures, including pros/cons and migration considerations. Cover Microservices
architecture and Hybrid cloud integration architecture.
- To provide design, engineering, development, planning, and administration
- of Azure Kubernetes AKS clusters for a set of critical business
- applications.
- To provide design, engineering, development, planning and administration
- of Azure PaaS and IaaS services through extensive use of automation and
- terraform.
- Work closely with engineering, security, and operations teams to engineer and build Kubernetes and Azure PaaS & IaaS solutions
- within an agile and modern enterprise-grade operating model.
- Design solutions for Kubernetes-based architecture while ensuring
- best practices are followed.
- Ability to capture the entire infrastructure as a code.
- Implement the principles of SRE.
- Design deployment architecture for IaaS / SaaS /PaaS that will address
- our client's business needs and lead teams that will implement them
- for our clients.
- Experience with workload migration automation tools.
- Infrastructure provisioning and management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet,
- Chef)
- Cloud architect certified Azure
Good To Have
- DevOps and Agile methodologies, processes and tools. Exceptional written
- and verbal communication skills.
- Confidently articulates all aspects of the solution and persuasively
- communicates value to the client.
- Works individually, within teams, or as a leader, to determine customer
- requirements in complex and ambiguous environments.
- Self-motivated with strong analytical and presentation skills.
