Sr. Cloud Operation Engineer

Title : Sr. Cloud Operation Engineer

Practice - CIS - Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services

About Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services: Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about embracing digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the digital era. Our holistic approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to run the business in a secure environment.

*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

Location: SFO, CA (Remote)

Skills: -Infrastructure as code (Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation) , cloud AWS experience (EBS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront etc.) Docker, AWS EKS and Nginx Ingress , Bash and Python Automation, as Nagios, ELK , Prometheus

Roles and Responsibilities:

Deploying and automating infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds preferably in AWS Cloud using Infrastructure as Code.

Research and implement new technological subsystems to modernize our infrastructure and work with various groups to maintain our high uptimes and deliverables to various business partners.

Implement automation and industry best practices to run our large-scale, rapidly growing infrastructure with minimum human intervention.

Address production issues, learn to mitigate them quickly, and find ways to prevent them

Implement monitoring, observability and alerting tools such as dashboards and logging systems to understand the health and availability of our infrastructure and applications.

Configure and maintain software components, i.e., operating systems, web servers, application environments through Python and Bash in a highly customized environment.

Participate in our team s follow the sun on-call rotation and improve on-call practices and procedures.

Carefully follows and employs change control procedures.

Provides recommendations on system and process changes as needed

Provides support for customer facing systems and participates in on-call rotation

Participate in weekly releases and OS patching of infrastructure on regular basis to keep it secure.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $80,000 - $90,000 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and is 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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.