SRE Architect (Remote)

SRE Architect

Cognizant Digital Practice helps clients reinvent products, experiences, and business models to build new value, differentiation, and drive revenue in the digital economy. We take an Experience centered approach which uses human insights to take ideas from vision to outcome and building end to end experience led solutions that enables brands to transform their customer and employee experiences using design, marketing, and commerce capabilities

Primary Location: Bellevue, WA - or Remote

*Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in US*

Key Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership to a team of highly passionate and skilled engineers.

Build, run and improve critical service environments.

Coordinate planning and execution with internal engineering teams, business partners and technical leaders across the division.

Own deployment, availability, reliability, performance and customer escalation targets for these environments.

Proactive identification and reduction of issues through design, testing, and implementation of software.

Guiding force for Creating and maintaining large scale architectures, looking after the end-to-end experience of the customer, or otherwise exercising excellent engineering judgement on a level above isolated method.

Identify efficient operations practice and drive culture of automating repetitive tasks with scripting or applications. Experience in Process automation.

Professional Experience / Qualifications:

Implement best practices in Observability, Reliability, Release engineering

Proficiency with monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Logic Monitor).

Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, and cloud environments with different OS Flavors.

Setup E2E Automation for deployment, E2E application tracing

Develop a single pane dashboard for application

Knowledge with respect to Cloud Security strategies.

Strong understanding of application performance monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, and logging frameworks.

Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, ARM, and Terraform, or scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

Knowledge of AIOps implementation is a plus.

Implement SLIs/SLOs

Proficient in setting up alerting and monitoring for containerized and microservices environments

Implemented Error Budget Policies

Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until March 31^st 2025.

The annual salary for this position is between $113,000 to $161,000 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.

Why Choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today's fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams. We stand out because we put human experiences at the core.

Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skills fresh and have opportunities to obtain certifications on the latest technologies.

If you're comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you!