San Francisco, California, United States

Cognizant is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer

Cognizant is looking for an AWS Site Reliability Engineer within its Cloud Infrastructure & Security services practice. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, deploying, and managing AWS environments with a focus on automation, scalability, and security.

What You'll Do

  • Design, code, test, and deliver software to automate manual operational work.
  • Troubleshoot priority incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortems, and ensure permanent closure.
  • Collaborate with development teams to help build software for reliability and scale.
  • Identify application patterns and analytics to support better service level objectives.
  • Design self-healing and resiliency patterns.
  • Design automated software and product upgrades, change management, and release management solutions.
  • Collaborate with senior technical leads and mentor junior engineers.
  • Design, deploy, and manage AWS environments with a focus on automation, scalability, and security.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform.
  • Monitor and optimize system performance, availability, and security, applying observability best practices.

What We're Looking For

  • Strong hands-on exposure in AWS, Terraform, Python/Bash, CI/CD.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools like Bitbucket, Jenkins, or Spinnaker.
  • Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash for automation.
  • Proven experience deploying, managing, and a deep understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure in secure environments.
  • Working knowledge of infrastructure components like routers, load balancers, cloud products, container systems, compute, storage, networks, VPC, subnets, and security groups.
  • Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
  • A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a software engineering discipline.

Nice to Have

  • Basic knowledge of AI technologies and prompt engineering to leverage generative AI for enhancing productivity and automating tasks.

Technical Stack

  • AWS, Terraform, Python, Bash
  • CI/CD, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Spinnaker
  • Docker, Kubernetes
Required Skills
AWSTerraformPythonBashCI/CDBitbucketJenkinsSpinnakerDockerKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeAutomationScriptingCloud Infrastructure
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Cognizant
Cognizant is a global technology and professional services leader, empowering clients to reimagine processes, innovate and transform in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. In the UK, we work with major public sector bodies to deliver secure, scalable, citizen-centred digital services that make a real impact.
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Job Details
Department Information Technology
Category infrastructure
Posted 2 months ago