System Design Architect/ Security Architect

Today’s world is crime-riddled. Criminals are everywhere, invisible, virtual and sophisticated. Traditional ways to prevent and investigate crime and terror are no longer enough… 

Technology is changing incredibly fast. The criminals know it, and they are taking advantage. We know it too.  

For nearly 30 years, the incredible minds at Cognyte work closely together around the world and put their expertise to work to keep up with constantly evolving technological and criminal trends and help make the world a safer place with its investigative analytics software solutions. 

About Cognyte:

We are defined by our dedication to doing good and this translates to business success, meaningful work friendships, a can-do attitude and a drive for curiosity.

 Your team: 

We are seeking for a highly skilled and experienced System Architect to join our NI (Network Intelligence) architecture group. The ideal candidate will lead the design and evolution of our enterprise systems. This role requires deep expertise in system security posture, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure technologies, and modern CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with hands-on technical capabilities and a passion for building scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

 Your Role: As a Cognyter you will: 

• Participate in the design and architecture of a secure, scalable, and high-performance systems – focusing on the underlying infrastructure technologies.
• Participate in the design of a cloud-native deployment platform, agnostic to the underlying HW, OS and cloud orchestration technology i.e., Kubernetes, such as OpenShift, Tanzu, etc.
• Working closely with R&D and product management in Agile methodology, to design scalable, fail-proof and high-performance solutions
• Design CI/CD pipelines to automate and optimize software delivery processes
• Conduct sizing, performance tuning and capacity planning for applications and infrastructure.
• Provide guidance and support for infrastructure and deployment operations.
• Design monitoring and logging solutions to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Providing detailed solution architecture and effort estimation as part of presale activities
• Providing expertise and technical guidance to the R&D teams
• Analysing requirements from product roadmap and customer projects, transforming them into detailed infrastructure design documents and effort estimations
• Collaborate with security experts to integrate security best practices into the DevOps process.
• Analyze security assessments reports and evaluate the engineering impact (Vulnerability scans, Penetration Testing, etc.).
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive continuous improvement

Requirements

Your skills: for that Mission you’ll need to have:

• Proven experience as a Infrastructure Architect/ System Architect or a similar role with 12years of experience.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps principles, methodologies, and tools
• Experience with Kubernetes in multiple platforms e.g. OpenShift, Tanzu, Rancher
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
• Familiarity with security scanning tools (e.g., Nessus, Trivy)
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and monitoring
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to details
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• An endlessly curious mind with a drive for new challenges

 Advantage

• BSc in computer science or equivalent degree 
• Work experience in a global company, customer-facing
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies