About Cognizant Corporate
Cognizant Corporate is a global community united by a shared purpose: to make a meaningful impact. We are committed to excellence and driven by outcomes that matter. Collaboration is at the heart of how we work, and our forward-thinking mindset fuels continuous learning, innovation, and growth.
At Cognizant, careers transcend titles. We empower our people to think strategically, inspire others, and lead with purpose – always guided by our core values.
Role Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain enterprise virtualization platforms with a primary focus on Nutanix AOS and Prism and Microsoft Hyper-V Failover Clustering.
- Manage clusters through Prism Element and Prism Central, including health monitoring, upgrades, capacity planning, trend analysis, and lifecycle management.
- Plan and implement platform upgrades, firmware and driver updates, cluster expansions, and maintenance activities while minimizing service disruption.
- Troubleshoot complex compute, storage, and virtualization networking issues, including virtual switches, VLANs, NIC teaming, and MTU configurations.
- Use AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager and AWS Transform to monitor and manage hybrid systems.
- Assess virtualized workloads, plan migration waves, test migrations, and support workload rehosting to Amazon EC2.
- Support disaster recovery and business continuity through replication, snapshots, recovery procedures, and periodic testing.
- Maintain monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and thresholds to ensure reliable platform operations.
- Automate routine administration, reporting, and configuration checks using PowerShell.
- Perform root cause analysis and maintain operational documentation and runbooks.
- Advise customers on technical requirements and recommended practices.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Systems Administrator or Systems Engineer.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise virtualization platforms, including Nutanix and Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Working knowledge of compute, storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Strong troubleshooting skills in highly available production environments.
- Experience using PowerShell or similar tools to automate routine administration and reporting.
- Familiarity with AWS cloud virtualization services, including AWS Transform and AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager.
- Basic understanding of AWS Well-Architected principles.
- U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residence and eligibility to receive a U.S. Government security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of secure administration practices, access controls, and compliance-focused environments.
- Strong understanding of Certificate Authority (CA) principles and certificate management.
- Experience with network monitoring tools and troubleshooting network issues.
- Familiarity with IT service design principles and best practices.
- Ability to create clear technical documentation and collaborate effectively with infrastructure, network, security, and vendor teams.
Work Model
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in our office in Blue Ash, OH. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.
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.
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
Why Cognizant
À savoir avant de postuler
- Autorisation de travail: Cognizant ne prendra en considération que les candidats à ce poste qui sont légalement autorisés à travailler au Canada sans avoir besoin d'un parrainage de l'employeur, aujourd'hui ou à l'avenir.
- Mesures d’adaptation: Si vous avez un handicap qui nécessite des mesures d’adaptation raisonnable pour effectuer une recherche d’emploi ou poser une candidature, veuillez envoyer un courriel à [email protected] avec votre demande et vos coordonnées.
- L’IA dans notre processus de recrutement: Nous utilisons des outils d'intelligence artificielle (IA) pour trier et évaluer les candidatures efficacement. Notre équipe examine ensuite les candidatures et décide qui passe à l’étape suivante.
- Poste à pourvoir: Sauf indication contraire, ce poste est actuellement vacant et nous cherchons à le pourvoir.
- Exigences linguistiques: Nous demandons à tous les candidats de posséder une connaissance de base de l’anglais afin de faciliter les communications internes. Pour les postes au Québec, la capacité à communiquer efficacement en anglais est requise car vous fournirez des services à et collaborerez avec des parties prenantes anglophones situées hors de la province.
- Inclusion: Cognizant est un employeur souscrivant au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Votre candidature et votre dossier ne seront pas examinés en fonction de la race, de la couleur, du sexe, de la religion, des croyances, de l'orientation sexuelle, de l'identité de genre, de l'origine nationale, du handicap, des renseignements génétiques, de la grossesse, du statut d'ancien combattant ou de toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois fédérales, provinciales ou locales.
À propos de Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) est un AI Builder et une entreprise de services numériques (ESN) élaborant des solutions complètes d’IA maximisant les investissements pour des résultats concrets. Sa profonde expertise des métiers, des processus et des technologies lui permet d’intégrer dans les systèmes technologiques le contexte unique de chaque organisation de l’ingénierie à la production à l’échelle. Son objectif: améliorer l’efficacité des équipes, créer de la valeur et permettre aux grandes entreprises de rester performantes dans un monde qui évolue rapidement. Pour en savoir plus: cognizant.ai ou @cognizant.
