COCognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
AKS Architect - Solution Architect
Chennai ₹28-41 LPA Posted 4 Nov 2026
FULL TIME
Ansible
Microsoft Azure
Puppet
High Availability
Terraform
+7 more
Job Description
AKS Architect: Create Azure cloud reference architecture, define target state cloud architecture, and leverage experience with private and public cloud architectures, including pros/cons and migration considerations. Work on microservices architecture and hybrid cloud integration architecture.
- Provide design, engineering, development, planning, and administration
- of Azure Kubernetes AKS clusters for a set of critical business
- applications.
- Provide design, engineering, development, planning, and administration
- of Azure PaaS and IaaS services through extensive use of automation and
- Terraform.
- Collaborate 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 code.
- Implement the principles of SRE.
- Design deployment architecture for IaaS / SaaS / PaaS to meet
- our client’s business needs and lead teams that 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.
