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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect - REMOTE

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect - REMOTE

We are seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Leader with 14+ years of experience in infrastructure and application architecture. The ideal candidate will excel in defining SRE roadmaps, mentoring high-performing teams, and driving organizational resiliency through the implementation of core SRE principles. If you thrive on collaboration, innovation, and delivering measurable business impact, we want to hear from you!

Roles/Responsibilities:
• Must have good experience on infrastructure architecture
• Must have application architectural experience
• Build and mentor the SRE teams across
• Architectural experience on performing SRE activities on their own
• Defining SRE Roadmaps and Strategies across organization.
• Ability to create and set SRE objectives SLI, SLO and SLA, KPI
• Excel on implementing core SRE principles and practices
• Work closely with team on Estimation & Resource Planning and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• Understand management requirements and strategize planning from SRE and resiliency perspective
• Triage and RCA of production incidents
• Observability and monitoring with APM tools and creating dashboards/alerts and automation for incidents
• Leadership qualities like cross teams collaboration and effective communication


Required Qualifications:
• Agile
• JIRA
• Budget and Resource Planning
• ITSM tools like Service Now
• Microsoft project, Planner
• Documentation tools like Confluence, Sharepoint
• SRE Chaos/ Resiliency Engineering-Primer
• SRE Monitor&Observ-Primer,
• Cloud Concepts,
• Kubernetes,
• Docker,
• Cloud native technologies,
• Linux/Unix,
• Any programming/scripting languages
• Terraform,
• Ansible,
• Monitoring tools,
• Grafana,
• Splunk,
• Databases,
• APM,
• AWS,
• Openshift


Job Location: Remote

The annual salary for this position is between $102 - 160k 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.

The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

  • Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world.
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About us:
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com

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.

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Disclaimer:
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.

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