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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect - REMOTE

Cognizant North America
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)
United States, Illinois, Riverwoods
Apr 21, 2025

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.

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.

Travel: 0-5%

Why Choose Cognizant?

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 abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

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

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. We consider all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law.

ABOUT COGNIZANT:
Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a flawless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space.

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