What makes Cognizant a u to work? The combination of rapid growth and a unique place international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.
As a Site Reliability Engineer Lead, you will have the opportunity to lead a team of SRE engineers and manage the unique challenges of scaling our client's digitization program. Your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design will be crucial in providing scalable, reliable, durable, and secure applications for our customers and internal users. You will build highly reliable applications using a customer-first approach while innovating technically and understanding our customers' needs.
Mandatory Skills:
•Strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, microservices, RDBMS, NoSQL
•Proficiency with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, ECS, EKS, SQS, Kinesis
•Observability using Splunk,NewRelic.
•Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
•APIs and event-driven approaches
•Security patterns
•Unix/Linux systems administration, with familiarity in Docker
•Strong experience in analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
•Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks
•Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
•Knowledge of modern software engineering practices and tools - Agile and DevOps
•Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical matters in an easy-to-understand way
•Strong domain knowledge of telecom billing and charging rating systems
Duties and Responsibilities:
•Within the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will be working with various development team, and other partners teams to ensure that applications reliability, efficiency, and performance meet our customer's needs, while keeping the service's operation's reliable, scalable, and automated.
•Develop tools and automation to streamline operations and improve system reliability, efficiency, and performance.
•Partner with development teams on feature launches to ensure our customers are delivered reliable and scalable functionality.
•Build a deep knowledge on production infrastructure and use that to debug distributed systems problems and identify improvements to the system.
•Operations, SLO, SLA management
•Metrics reporting and progress tracking.
•Manage infrastructure costs and optimize resource utilization.
•Work with security teams to ensure compliance with security policies and procedures.
•Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for our systems.
•Observability (Alarms, monitoring, synthetics).
•Error management
Qualifications & Certifications (Optional):
•Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related engineering degree
•20+ years of IT industry experience
Salary Range:>$100,000
Date of Posting:21-Apr-26
Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit http://www.cognizant.com/careers. Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.
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.
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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.