Site Reliability Engineer

Cognizant; Hyderabad, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced engineer in Hyderabad to work on Python-based microservices, container platforms, and cloud-native observability. You will contribute to deployment pipelines, log analysis, and dashboarding using Splunk and Grafana.

Responsibilities include configuring health checks, integrating API gateways, and evaluating GenAI observability tools as optional enhancements.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and modern cloud platforms.
• Experience with container platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Knowledge of API gateways, Kafka and Redis is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain observability dashboards, alerts, and tracing pipelines.
• Work with deployment pipelines and ensure health checks (actuator, liveliness, readiness).
• Analyze application logs using Splunk and frame queries.
• Create dashboards with Grafana and enable proactive alerts.
• Collaborate on middleware integration and API governance.
• Explore GenAI/RAG pipelines and related observability tools (optional).

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Cloud platforms

Postman

Microservices

Distributed systems

Automation

Splunk

Grafana

GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Health checks

API gateway

Kafka

Redis

Observability

LLM observability tools

GenAI / RAG pipelines

Tools

Phoenix

LangSmith

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Knowledge of Python
• Good understanding and experience in Kubernetes and Openshift Container Platform (OCP)
• Cloud Platform understanding
• Knowledge of how to work / execute Postman
• Microservices architecture understanding
• Strong understanding of multi-tier distributed systems
• Automation experience any tool (playwright preferred)
• Splunk - Strong understanding and ability to frame query and analyze application logs
• Grafana - good understanding of how to build dashboards /alerts
• Github - source control tool knowledge
• should have worked and have knowledge of Deployment pipeline
• Knowledge on services health check - actuator, liveliness, readiness probe
• Understanding of middleware integration - API gateway, apigee, kafka, redis
• Build and maintain observability dashboards, alerts, and tracing pipelines
• Exposure to LLM observability tools (Phoenix, LangSmith, etc.) (Optional)
• Understanding of GenAI / Agentic systems / RAG pipelines (Optional)