Lead SRE Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions - Plano, TX

Full-time - Senior

Plano, TX

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Lead SRE Engineer to join its Digital Engineering team, which focuses on building innovative cloud-based software solutions for a diverse global client base. The role emphasizes collaboration within a geographically distributed team, driving continuous improvement, and challenging the status quo with creative solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in site reliability engineering, cloud technologies, and a passion for enhancing application reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Build cutting-edge, cloud-based software that powers modern business.
• Drive continuous improvement and challenge legacy systems with innovative solutions.
• Lead initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of applications and platforms using data-driven analytics.
• Act as the main point of contact during major incidents, quickly identifying and solving issues to avoid financial losses.
• Document and share knowledge within the organization via internal forums and communities.
• Collaborate with team members to establish service level objectives and error budgets with customers.
• Perform API performance testing using tools such as JMeter or Blazemeter.
• Identify root cause analysis for production issues in AWS environments with multiple microservices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in site reliability engineering.
• Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, and enterprise system architecture.
• Fluency in JAVA programming.
• Proficiency in observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Datadog.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools like Jenkins, GitLab, and Terraform.
• Experience with container orchestration tools such as ECS, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
• Excellent communication skills.

Benefits

• 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