About the role
Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Production Support Lead with 10+ years of experience supporting high-performing, scalable enterprise applications. You will be part of a critical production support team responsible for ensuring application stability, reliability, and seamless user experience for high-demand systems.
Our engineers are passionate about system reliability, incident resolution, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with product managers, developers, business stakeholders, and clients to quickly resolve issues, minimize downtime, and deliver stable, high-quality services to users.
You will play a key role in managing production environments, leading incident response, and driving operational excellence. Our teams are agile, proactive, and continuously strive to improve processes, automation, and system observability. Success is measured by system uptime, rapid issue resolution, and customer satisfaction.
Location: Hartford, Connecticut (Hybrid)
You must be legally authorized to work in the USA without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
Roles/Responsibilities:
· Total 10+ years of IT Production Support experience with thorough understanding of ITIL processes
· Lead technical discussions independently in collaboration with Business & IT leads.
· Take ownership of production issues providing workarounds & performing initial technical assessments and collaborate effectively with Development teams for implementation
· Ability & experience to prioritize issues effectively in alignment with client and business needs.
- Ability to assess upstream and downstream impacts of system changes
- Perform impact and risk assessments for releases, upgrades, and changes
- Flexibility to provide occasional off‑hours or on‑call support as required
- Have prior experience in managing IRT calls
Required Qualifications:
- Confidently manage multiple business partners on a day‑to‑day basis.
- Build strong, conflict‑free working relationships with IT and business stakeholders
- Demonstrate strong collaboration across cross‑functional teams
- Exhibit excellent communication and client management skills
- At least 5+ years of hands‑on experience with:
- Writing and optimizing SQL queries.
- Debugging stored procedures.
- Managing database backup and restore during deployments and incidents.
· Strong understanding of system integrations
· Hands‑on expertise in at least one programming language
Salary and Other Compensation:
Applications will be accepted until June 1st, 2026.
The annual salary for this position is between $ 81,337- $ 141,500 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.
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
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
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required
La Comunidad Cognizant:
Somos un equipo que se aprecia y apoya mutuamente. Nuestros asociados trabajan en un entorno colaborativo e integrador en el que todos pueden prosperar.
- Cognizant es una comunidad global con más de 300.000+ asociados en todo el mundo.
- No solo soñamos con un mundo mejor, sino que trabajamos para hacerlo realidad.
- Cuidamos de nuestros asociados, clientes, socios, comunidades y entorno haciendo lo correcto.
- Fomentamos un entorno innovador en el que puedes desarrollar tu carrera profesional.
Acerca de nosotros
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) es arquitecto de soluciones de IA y proveedor de servicios tecnológicos que traduce la inversión en inteligencia artificial en valor empresarial real mediante soluciones de IA de stack completo adaptadas a cada cliente. Su profundo conocimiento de la industria, los procesos y la ingeniería le permite integrar el contexto único de cada organización en sistemas tecnológicos que amplifican el potencial humano, generan un impacto real en el negocio y mantienen a las grandes empresas globales un paso adelante en un mundo en constante cambio. Para más información, visita www.cognizant.es o síguenos en @cognizant.
Cognizant es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Tu solicitud y candidatura no serán consideradas en base a raza, color, sexo, religión, credo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, discapacidad, información genética, embarazo, condición de veterano o cualquier otra característica protegida por las leyes federales, estatales o locales.
Advertencia:
La información sobre remuneración es exacta a la fecha de esta publicación. Cognizant se reserva el derecho a modificar esta información en cualquier momento, sujeto a la legislación aplicable.Es posible que los candidatos deban asistir a entrevistas en persona o por videoconferencia e, incluso, que tengan presentar su documento de identidad vigente, durante cada entrevista.