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Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Job Location: Remote, USA.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security of applications and infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure.

The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on experience across Azure cloud infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, automation, security, and production support.

This role will be responsible for maintaining highly available Azure environments, improving operational reliability, automating repetitive activities, troubleshooting complex production issues, strengthening monitoring and alerting, and supporting incident and problem management. The successful candidate will work closely with application, infrastructure, DevOps, networking, and security teams to continuously improve the stability and resilience of the Azure platform.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is up to $130K depending 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.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Manage, monitor, and support production and non-production workloads on Microsoft Azure, ensuring reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security.
  2. Support and troubleshoot Azure services including Virtual Machines, App Services, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure networking components.
  3. Design, implement, and maintain scalable, resilient, highly available, and operationally reliable Azure cloud solutions.
  4. Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, application connectivity, networking, performance, deployment, and availability issues, driving timely resolution and root-cause analysis.
  5. Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, diagnostics, dashboards, and alerting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Azure-native monitoring solutions.
  6. Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve service availability, platform stability, operational efficiency, and overall system reliability.
  7. Build, maintain, enhance, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, supporting reliable and repeatable application and infrastructure deployments.
  8. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Bicep, and/or ARM templates to automate and standardize Azure infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
  9. Automate repetitive operational, deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure-management activities to reduce manual intervention and improve platform reliability.
  10. Support Azure security, identity, and access management, including RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, network security, and related security controls.
  11. Partner with security and infrastructure teams to address vulnerabilities, configuration issues, patching, security remediation, compliance, and cloud governance requirements.
  12. Participate in incident, problem, change, and release management, perform root-cause analysis for production issues, maintain operational documentation, and collaborate across application, DevOps, infrastructure, networking, and security teams to drive continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

  • Strong hands-on experience supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure and production workloads.
  • Strong understanding of Azure infrastructure architecture, availability, scalability, resiliency, and troubleshooting.
  • Hands-on experience with key Azure services such as Virtual Machines, App Services, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, AKS, and Azure networking.
  • Strong experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
  • Hands-on experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Bicep, and/or ARM templates.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure, application connectivity, networking, performance, and availability issues.
  • Experience supporting RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, identity/access controls, and network security in Azure.
  • Experience supporting security remediation, vulnerability remediation, patching, governance, and compliance activities.
  • Good knowledge of operational processes including incident management, problem management, change management, and release management.
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to work effectively across application and infrastructure teams.

Preferred Skills

  • Hands-on experience operating AKS-based/containerized workloads in production environments.
  • Experience automating repetitive cloud operations and production-support activities.
  • Understanding of modern SRE and DevOps engineering practices.
  • Experience working in enterprise-scale Azure environments with multiple applications and infrastructure components.
  • Knowledge of cloud networking, application connectivity, load balancing, security, and identity concepts.
  • Ability to analyze operational issues and translate recurring problems into automation or engineering improvements.
  • Strong documentation, collaboration, and communication skills.

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

Work model:

At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote role in USA.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

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.

Things to know before you apply

  • Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
  • Accommodations: 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.
  • AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
  • Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
  • Language proficiency: 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.
  • Inclusion: 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.

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap 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, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

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