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Lead SRE Engineer

Company: Cognizant
Location: Plano
Posted on: October 23, 2024

Job Description:

About Cognizant's Digital Engineering Practice: At Cognizant Digital Engineering, a small cross functional team comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, UI/UX designers and Big Data analysts builds higher quality software faster siloed individuals working independently. Small, nimble engineering teams generate collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality deliverables. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies. The Role: Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Lead SRE Engineer experience to serve our diverse base of global clients. As a member of our team, you will build cutting edge, cloud-based software that powers modern business. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the "team", drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions. Location: Plano, Texas Responsibilities:

  • Should be strong SRE, experience with java, AWS / DevOps / deployment strategy and monitoring tools. Candidates should have hands-on experience with Dynatrace / Splunk / CICD / Grafana etc.
  • Should possess application trouble shooting experience. More on core SRE metrics before going to Prod. uptime vs availability, monitoring vs Observability, and incident and outage etc.
  • Should be familiar with SLO, SLA, SLI or other SRE keywords or terms.
  • Experience with deploying using CICD pipeline and debugging/troubleshooting issues and coordinate with the application team such as Java, Spring Boot, Python, .Net, etc.
  • Ability to perform API performance testing using tools such as JMeter / Blazemeter.
  • Experience on identifying RCA for any production issues on AWS environment with multiple microservices.
  • Expertise in Terraform to manage infrastructure as code would be highly desirable. Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues to ensure smooth operation of applications
  • Demonstrates and champions site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team.
  • Leads initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of your team's applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels.
  • Collaborates with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and stakeholders to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers.
  • Demonstrates a high level of technical expertise within one or more technical domains and proactively identifies and solves technology-related bottlenecks in your areas of expertise.
  • Acts as the main point of contact during major incidents for your application and demonstrates the skills to identify and solve issues quickly to avoid financial losses.
  • Documents and shares knowledge within your organization via internal forums and communities Required Skill:
    • 8+ years of relevant work experience
    • Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices with the ability to implement these practices within an application or platform.
    • Fluency in JAVA programming.
    • Proficiency and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, SLO alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog.
    • Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, etc.)
    • Experience with container and container orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes, Docker) Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills.
    • Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform. also experience managing/supporting Cloud based applications, AWS preferred.
    • Excellent communications desired. 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.

Keywords: Cognizant, Carrollton , Lead SRE Engineer, Engineering , Plano, Texas

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