Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid)
We are looking for a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in Cloud Native technologies, AWS, and SRE practices. This role encompasses leadership responsibilities, including system design, technical reviews, and performance assessments focused on availability, reliability, and resiliency. By ensuring robust and efficient system operations, the candidate will play a key role in advancing our company’s mission.
Location: Riverwoods, IL - USA.
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
The Onsite position must be at the office 3 days per week.
Responsibilities
- Leads, design, review, and performance/availability/reliability/resiliency assessments.
- Communicate clearly with collaborators about PE services and support needs.
- Expert and Consultant with diverse technology background.
- Experience in providing direction on strategy for high risk releases and complex programs.
- Understands application end-to-end processes and deployment architecture.
- Experience in driving Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) sessions and definitions.
- Experience in conducting design review for NFR including Single Point of Failure (SPoF) Analysis and Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
- Candidate must show expertise in Cloud Native, AWS and SRE, Performance Engineering.
- Demonstrated experience in AWS DevOps, Automation, DevOps, Container environment set-up, API Gateway, Container Registry, Docker, AWS Platform, SRE, DevSecOps, DevOps Concepts, DevOps Tools, Apigee API Management, GITHUB, Jenkins.
- Experience in assessing UI performance and provide recommendations for optimization.
- Expertise Observability tools like Dynatrace, App Dynamics, ELK, Grafana.
- Proficiency in Java runtimes, Core Java, Garbage collection, JVM parameters tuning.
- Experience in performance tuning on Application Servers (Tomcat/WAS) and JavaScript.
- Experience in trouble shooting Performance / Scalability / Availability / Reliability issues.
- Experience in Thread dump, heap dump generation & analysis.
- Experience in Capacity Planning.
- Proficiency in the following tools: Dynatrace or Appdynamics, Jprofiler or JProbe, Load Runner or Jmeter.
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, GitHub, Groovy).
- Experience in Chaos engineering, Python/Shell scripting and Linux.
Salary and compensation
The annual salary for this position is between $81,337K – $141K depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Applications will be received by April 15th, 2025.
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.
- 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 courses to keep your abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications in 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.
The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
- Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000+ associates around the world.
- We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen.
- We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right.
- We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.
About us:
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email CareersNA2@cognizant.com with your request and contact information.
Disclaimer:
Compensation 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.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.