Site Reliability Engineer (R2)/SRE Architect

Site reliability Engineer (R2)/SRE Architect

Cognizant Digital Practice helps clients reinvent products, experiences, and business models to build new value, differentiation, and drive revenue in the digital economy. We take an Experience centered approach which uses human insights to take ideas from vision to outcome and building end to end experience solutions that enables brands to transform their customer and employee experiences using design, marketing, and commerce capabilities

Location: Riverwoods, Illinois - Onsite

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in US

Responsibilities & Required Qualifications:

Strong Scrum background

Delivering superior Reliability & Resiliency outcomes.

Strong expertise in Java / Linux / DevOps / GitHub / CICD / Ansible / Cloud / Redhat OCP/Datadog/Splunk with special focus on performance

Preferably in Banking / Payments industry experience

SRE design to address reliability and resiliency with availability of 5-9s

Experience in working in a cloud environment (OCP and AWS EMR).

Experience with application monitoring tools, observability, and performance assessments.

Strong experience with DevOps (CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub)

High level of familiarity with the Linux command line and scripting

Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring and testing

Experience developing automation solutions in Java, bash, Python, Perl (or other similar languages)

Extremely comfortable with production environments, firewalls, and networking

Studied architectural patterns at scale, including thoughtfully designed APIs, repeatable delivery pipelines, and efficient computer engineering principles.

Strong experience in deploying, observing, altering, logging, and monitoring systems (Splunk, Datadog) with a mindset towards predictive analysis.

Working knowledge of the automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform.

Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.

Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.

Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.

Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.

Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.

Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.

Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.

Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until April 30^th, 2025.

The annual salary for this position is between $113,000 to $141,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Why Choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today's fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams. We stand out because we put human experiences at the core.

Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skills fresh and have opportunities to obtain certifications on the latest technologies.

If you're comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you!