This is an excellent opportunity for Infrastructure Engineers to be part of leading-edge technology projects. Cognizant’s Cloud, Infrastructure & Security Services Practice provides end-to-end solutions covering architecture, design, implementation, management, and on-going support across the entire enterprise technology infrastructure. Our services include a spectrum of management, consulting, and systems integration services to help our clients maximize value in their infrastructure resources, while optimizing infrastructure performance and cost.
About the Role
We're looking for an engineer to design, deploy, and support our virtualization and container platforms. You'll manage Hyper-V/Openshift environments, automate operations, and help migrate workloads to modern container platforms.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Openshift/Hyper-V clusters, including live migration, replication, and capacity planning
- Automate provisioning and configuration with Ansible, Terraform, and PowerShell
- Build CI/CD and GitOps pipelines (Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD)
- Monitor platform health and troubleshoot performance, networking, and storage issues
- Apply security and access controls (RBAC, SCC, patching)
- Plan and execute VMware-to-OpenShift/Hyper V migrations
- Document processes and support on-call rotations
Required Skills
- Good with Openshift or Hyper-V, Windows Server, Failover Clustering, and SCVMM
- Strong Linux (RHEL) administration
- Scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
- Experience with Ansible, Git, and CI/CD tools
- Solid grasp of networking (DNS, VLANs, load balancing) and storage (CSI, ODF/Ceph)
Nice to Have Skills
- Java/Spring Boot, Go, or Python application experience
- Red Hat certifications (EX280, EX180) or CKA
- Azure Stack HCI, Azure, or AWS
- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
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.
