Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Cognizant is looking for a Lead SRE. This is all about accepting digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the constantly evolving needs of the digital era. Our broad approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to own the business in a secure environment.

Roles/Responsibilities

* Provide technical leadership to a team of highly passionate and skilled engineers.

* Build, run and improve critical service environments.

* Coordinate planning and execution with internal engineering teams, business partners and technical leaders across the division.

* Own deployment, availability, reliability, performance and customer escalation targets for these environments.

* Proactive identification and reduction of issues through design, testing, and implementation of software.

* Guiding force for Creating and maintaining large scale architectures, looking after the end-to-end experience of the customer, or otherwise exercising excellent engineering judgement on a level above isolated method.

* Identify efficient operations practice and drive culture of automating repetitive tasks with scripting or applications. Experience in Process automation.

Required Qualifications:

* Implement best practices in Observability, Reliability, Release engineering

* Proficiency with monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Logic Monitor).

* Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, and cloud environments with different OS Flavors.

* Setup E2E Automation for deployment, E2E application tracing

* Develop a single pane dashboard for application

* Knowledge with respect to Cloud Security strategies.

* Strong understanding of application performance monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, and logging frameworks.

* Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, ARM, and Terraform, or scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

* Knowledge of AIOps implementation is a plus.

* Implement SLIs/SLOs

* Proficient in setting up alerting and monitoring for containerized and microservices environments

* Implemented Error Budget Policies

* Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. Cognizant considers all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law.

Applications will be accepted until February, 21st, 2025.

The annual salary for this position is between $ 81,337- $ 141,500 depending on the 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.

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