Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

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If you meet our background requirements and skills and are looking for an opportunity with these skills and expertise, here is the ideal opportunity for you!

Role: Site Reliability Engineer

Experience: 6 to 10 years of solid experience.

Job Location: Candidates need to be willing to work in office from the Client's office in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Job Summary

We are seeking a dedicated Site Reliability Engineer with 6 to 10 years of experience to join our team. The role involves designing and developing high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the reliability, availability and performance of critical services through proactive Monitoring, Capacity planning and performance tunning
• Design, implement and maintain observability tools
• Collaborate with software engineering, operation and product teams to design & deploy scalable and resilient systems
• Oversee incident management processes, ensuring timely resolution of incidents and minimizing the downtime
• Establish and monitoring key performance indicator to measure system reliability and performance
• Conduct poste incident reviews and implement lesion learned to prevent future occurrences
• Stay up to date with current industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve the SRE practices in the team

Required Skills:

• 3-5 years of Service reliability/operation experience running large-scale, high-performance applications in a hybrid environment (on-prem and cloud).
• 3-5 years of experience writing automation scripts and building dashboards for Application Performance management to manage Transaction journeys.
• 2-4 years of Experience working with Programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, Rust etc.
• Working knowledge on with one or more databases- Oracle, SQL Server, Redis, Clickhouse, Postgres, Mongo or any time-series databases.
• At least 2+ years of Experience transitioning platforms to the cloud and Containerization - GCP, AWS and Rancher (or Cloud Formation, Azure and OpenShift).
• Experience maintaining containerized app in GKE/RKE/AKE environments.
• Experience Implementing Cloud observability using OTEL to enable real-time monitoring, distributed tracing and incident resolution.
• Experience working with specific GraphQL Framework (Apollo, Prisma, Hasura etc...).
• Experience using knowledge of networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, Load balancing and service mesh to troubleshoot issues in high pressure situations.

Preferred Skills:

• Proven experience managing Application availability, building creative solutions to manage repetitive activities, improve gating and detect for applications at every touchpoint for a 24 x 7 High availability platform exposed to critical clients and customers.
• Working knowledge of Monitoring tools - Splunk, App-dynamics, Grafana/Prometheus and Dynatrace.
• Experience with tools like Rally, Confluence and other CI/CD extenders.
• Hands-on experience with implementing in-memory caching solutions. Experience on Redis DB is a plus.
• Excellent debugging skills across variety of integrated technical platforms on API gateway.
• Hands-on with GCS, Cloud SQL, Spanner and Firestore.
• Extensive experience in Enterprise level Infrastructure and Operations.
• Experience in High Availability and distributed systems, Linux and Windows administration, troubleshooting and support.
• Monitor and troubleshoot HashiCorp Vault environments, ensuring minimal downtime and rapid recovery from incidents.
• Working knowledge on Vertex AI, Gen AI and Bigquery.

Work Authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants who are legally authorized to work in the United States.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position depends 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?

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 abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

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

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. We consider 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.

About Cognizant:

Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a flawless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space.

www.cognizant.com

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