Cloud Architect at Cognizant
Salt Lake City, UT
$130,000from the description
Jul 30, 2026
Salt Lake City, UT
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior Cloud Architect role at a large consultancy, focused on designing and governing secure, scalable AWS environments for enterprise clients. The work spans infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipeline security, containerized platform engineering, observability, and cloud security posture management, with significant cross-team technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities. Best suited to a deep AWS generalist with strong DevSecOps and platform engineering experience.
Senior level · 12+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 920 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 550–2,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 1, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The compensation is stated as 'up to $130K', meaning $130,000 is the ceiling, not a midpoint; both min and max are set to $130,000 to reflect this.
SOC classification required a judgment call: the role writes and ships IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and automation code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a strong infrastructure operations and cloud security governance dimension (pointing to 15-1244). The primary day-to-day work — building IaC, pipelines, and platform automation — tips it to 15-1252, with 15-1244 as the runner-up.
The IaC tools (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, SaltStack) are listed in the required section as interchangeable options ('such as … or similar'); each is captured as a separate skill with the others as alternatives, reflecting that any one of them satisfies the requirement.
Similarly, the observability platforms (Splunk, Datadog, ELK, Fluentd) are listed as interchangeable options in the required section; each is captured with the others as alternatives.
CSPM and Zero Trust appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
The posting states 12+ years of overall experience and separately 10+ years of AWS experience; the overall years minimum is set to 12 (the role-level gate), and 10 years is captured on the AWS skill entry.
The title 'Cloud Architect' carries no explicit seniority level word, so the title states no level; the actual requirements (12+ years, enterprise-wide scope, mentoring) support Senior.
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