Site Reliability Architect (Remote)

  • Cognizant
  • Riverwoods, Illinois
  • Full Time
Cognizants Digital Engineering** practice is seeking a highly qualified **Site Reliability Architects** with experience developing and building high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. You will be part of a digital software team that works on high-demand applications. Our engineers have a passion for high-quality, reliable and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what were doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what were doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

**Cognizant Digital Engineering** If youre like us, youve got big ideas. At Cognizant, were exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new valueby connecting people with things, insights and experiences. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

**Location** : Riverwoods, Illinois or Remote

The annual salary for this position is between $120,000 - $165,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizants discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizants 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.

You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role.

**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

**Travel: 0-5%**

**Why Choose Cognizant?**

It takes a lot to succeed in todays 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 skillsets fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passionfor our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. Its the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

If you love ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, wed love to hear from you!

**About Cognizant Digital Engineering**

Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economyand we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design.

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Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job ID: 484571814
Originally Posted on: 7/9/2025

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