Resiliency Engineer

Cognizant; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 700,000 - 900,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading IT services provider in Ciudad de México seeks a professional to assess resiliency postures and enhance disaster recovery strategies on Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include evaluating incident response plans and identifying vulnerabilities. The ideal candidate will possess certifications in Azure architecture and ITIL, along with strong communication skills. Candidates are encouraged to join a committed and inclusive culture that prioritizes personal and professional development.

Servicios

Ongoing support with training and development

Competitive benefits and salary

Opportunity to work for global companies

Formación

• Deep experience with high availability and disaster recovery in Microsoft Azure.
• Solid understanding of Azure architecture services.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills for stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Assess the resiliency posture of customer environments.
• Evaluate disaster recovery plans and business continuity strategies.
• Identify risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure.

Conocimientos

High availability (HA) design

Disaster recovery (DR) design

Azure architecture understanding

Cloud native resiliency patterns

Incident response coordination

Communication skills

Technical consulting background

Educación

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

ITIL Foundation Certification

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Herramientas

Azure Site Recovery

Azure Automation

ServiceNow

Descripción del empleo

Responsibilities

• Assess the resiliency posture of customer environments from both technical and operational perspectives.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of disaster recovery (DR) plans, business continuity (BC) strategies and Major Incident Response Plans (MIRPs).
• Conduct in-depth technical analysis of cloud infrastructure, application dependencies, observability configurations and failover capabilities.
• Review and enhance MIRPs including escalation protocols, incident communication plans, recovery sequencing and impact containment strategies.
• Identify risks, vulnerabilities and single points of failure across workloads and operational processes.
• Recommend improvements aligned with the Azure Well Architected Framework, SRE principles and ITIL practices.
• Engage customer teams to understand RTO/RPO targets, recovery workflows and coordination models for major incidents.
• Deliver professional, customer‑facing documentation summarizing technical findings and process maturity recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• Deep experience with high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) design in Microsoft Azure.
• Solid understanding of Azure architecture including infrastructure Availability Zones, backup/recovery and monitoring services.
• Familiarity with cloud native resiliency patterns and site reliability engineering (SRE) methods.
• Proven ability to assess and design effective Major Incident Response Plans (MIRPs) that align with operational SLAs and business risk tolerances.
• Experience in business continuity planning, incident response coordination and process maturity assessments.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills for technical and executive stakeholders.
• Background in technical consulting or assessment‑based delivery engagements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to or leading the development of enterprise‑wide MIRP and DR testing programs.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as ISO 22301, NIST SP 800‑34 or SOC 2 Type II in the context of operational resilience.
• Prior experience supporting regulated industries (e.g. finance, healthcare, government) with stringent uptime, data protection or continuity mandates.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure BCDR tools such as Azure Site Recovery, Backup Vaults, Azure Automation or Service Health Alerts.
• Working knowledge of multi‑cloud or hybrid cloud environments and related resiliency implications.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering or resilience testing tools and practices.
• Experience integrating DevOps pipelines with resiliency validation steps (e.g., backup validation, DR simulation, alerting thresholds).
• Exposure to incident simulation platforms, runbook automation or response coordination tooling (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, ServiceNow).

Certifications Required

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• ITIL Foundation Certification
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (Recommended)

Why Cognizant?

Improve your career in one of the largest and fastest growing IT services providers worldwide.

Receive ongoing support and funding with training and development plans.

Have a highly competitive benefits and salary package.

Get the opportunity to work for leading global companies.

We are committed to respecting human rights and build a better future by helping your minds and the environment.

We invest in people and their wellbeing.

We create conditions for everyone to thrive. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or for any other reason covered.

At Cognizant we believe our culture makes us stronger!

Join us now!

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Igualdad de Empleo y Política de Acción Afirmativa:

Cognizant es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Todos los solicitantes calificados recibirán consideración para el empleo sin distinción de sexo, identidad de género, orientación sexual, raza, color, religión, origen nacional, discapacidad, estado de veterano protegido, edad o cualquier otra característica protegida por la ley.