About Cognizant Corporate

Cognizant Corporate is a global community united by a shared purpose: to make a meaningful impact. We are committed to excellence and driven by outcomes that matter. Collaboration is at the heart of how we work, and our forward-thinking mindset fuels continuous learning, innovation, and growth.

At Cognizant, careers transcend titles. We empower our people to think strategically, inspire others, and lead with purpose – always guided by our core values. Join us in shaping future of business.

About The Role

We are seeking a Lead/Principal Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own the design, standardization, and operation of enterprise Azure infrastructure at scale. This is a technical leadership role responsible for landing zone and platform architecture, automation and governance frameworks, reliability and cost optimization, and for guiding engineering teams and engaging with senior stakeholders and vendors.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead the design and implementation of Azure landing zones, subscription/management-group structures,



and platform foundations aligned to the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework.
• Define and own infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and reusable Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) modules consumed across teams.
• Architect and govern networking and connectivity at scale — hub-and-spoke/Virtual WAN, VPN/ExpressRoute, routing, DNS, private endpoints, IPAM, and egress/SASE controls — within Azure platform service limits.
• Establish governance, security, and compliance frameworks — Azure Policy guardrails, RBAC and identity models, Key Vault/secrets strategy, tagging, and baseline security controls.
• Drive reliability engineering — HA/DR design, backup strategy, capacity and quota planning, observability, and performance/availability SLOs.
• Own cloud cost governance (FinOps) — optimization strategy, budgeting, rightsizing, and chargeback/show back models.
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📌 Manager - Azure Cloud Infrastructure (Chennai)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Chennai