About Cognizant Consulting
Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice—we’re a global community of experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business through technology‑led transformation. We partner with organizations to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure solutions that power mission‑critical systems. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague to help ensure operational excellence and customer success. Could it be you?
About the Role
As a Consulting Manager – Technical Support Engineer, you will make an impact by delivering advanced technical support for enterprise backup and infrastructure platforms. You will work directly with customers, partners, and internal teams to diagnose complex issues, optimize system performance, and ensure high availability across mission-critical environments.
This role combines hands-on technical troubleshooting with consulting leadership, requiring strong expertise in infrastructure, storage, networking, and cloud platforms, along with a customer-first mindset.
In this Role, You Will
Technical Support & Incident Resolution
- Provide advanced technical support for backup, storage, and infrastructure platforms, including cloud environments
- Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring adherence to SLAs and support performance targets
- Troubleshoot across operating systems, networks, storage systems, and enterprise applications
- Manage multiple concurrent customer issues, ensuring proper tracking and resolution
Customer Engagement & Support Excellence
- Serve as a primary point of contact for customers, partners, and field teams
- Deliver customer-first support experiences, including live troubleshooting and remote assistance
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
Knowledge Management & Continuous Improvement
- Develop and maintain technical documentation and knowledge base articles
- Participate in product previews and contribute feedback for new releases
- Identify recurring issues and drive process and product improvements
Collaboration & Leadership
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and support teams to resolve escalations
- Mentor junior engineers and support team capability development
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and enablement initiatives
Platform & Infrastructure Expertise
- Support environments across Linux, Windows, virtualization, storage, and networking systems
- Work with technologies such as VMware, Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and enterprise databases
- Perform root cause analysis, log analysis, and debugging across distributed systems
Work Model
Based on this role’s business requirements, this is an onsite position in New York, NY, requiring full-time presence at the client or Cognizant office. We support a healthy work‑life balance through our wellbeing programs.
What You Must Have to Be Considered
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise technical support or system administration
- Strong expertise in Linux and Windows environments
- Experience with networking (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls), storage (SAN/NAS), and system administration
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting enterprise infrastructure and production environments
- Experience supporting cloud platforms or hybrid infrastructure
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent customer communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
These Will Help You Succeed
- Experience with backup and recovery platforms (e.g., Backup Exec or similar tools)
- Knowledge of virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V) and containerization
- Familiarity with observability tools, APM, and system monitoring
- Experience in enterprise IT environments with multi-tier architecture
- Certifications such as CompTIA, Red Hat, Cisco, or cloud certifications
We’re excited to meet professionals who thrive in high-impact technical environments and are passionate about solving complex infrastructure challenges. Don’t hesitate to apply—even if you meet most, but not all, of the requirements.
Compensation
- Base salary range : $110,000 – $129,500 annually, depending on experience, skills, and location
- This role is eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, subject to applicable plan terms
Benefits
Cognizant offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and professional growth, including:
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) plan with company contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Employee assistance program
- 15 Paid holidays plus PTO
- Paid parental leave and family‑support programs
- Learning and development programs, certifications, and career growth opportunities
What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and a pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Other employment-related information
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. 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 characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
