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
Additional employment information
Compensation 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 to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
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, state or local laws.
Applicants for US based positions must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the United States. The company is unable to provide employment-based immigration sponsorship for US based positions.
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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.
