Azure Reliability Engineer — Build Resilient Cloud Platforms

Cognizant

Carson City (NV)

Remote

USD 117,000 - 143,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Paid holidays and PTO
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, and security of Azure-based applications and infrastructure. The role emphasizes hands-on management of Azure services, IaC, monitoring, incident response, and DevOps practices, with a strong focus on scalable, resilient cloud solutions.

The position is remote from the USA and eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, with collaboration across

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and production workloads.
  • Experience building and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.
  • Proficient in IaC using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
  • Strong monitoring and incident management capabilities.
  • Knowledge of security controls, RBAC, and identity management in Azure.
  • Experience with Azure networking and AKS.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and support production and non-production workloads on Azure.
  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available Azure cloud solutions.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, diagnostics, dashboards, and alerting.
  • Build, maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
  • Develop IaC to automate Azure provisioning with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
  • Support security and access management, including Key Vault and RBAC.
  • Collaborate across teams to drive reliability and incident management.

Skills

Azure cloud
SRE principles
DevOps practices
Automation
Observability
Security controls
Incident management

Tools

Azure DevOps
Terraform
Bicep
ARM templates
AKS
Application Insights
Azure Monitor
Log Analytics
App Services
Key Vault

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, and security of Azure-based applications and infrastructure. The role emphasizes hands-on management of Azure services, IaC, monitoring, incident response, and DevOps practices, with a strong focus on scalable, resilient cloud solutions.

The position is remote from the USA and eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, with collaboration across

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