Azure Site Reliability Engineer

Cognizant; Alpharetta (GA); Remote; USD 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security of Azure-based applications and infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience with Azure cloud infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, IaC, observability, automation, security, and production support to continuously improve stability and resilience of the Azure platform.

Qualifications

• Proven experience supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure and production workloads.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, availability, scalability, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and alerting.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.
• Infra as Code expertise using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Ability to diagnose complex cloud issues and improve reliability.

Responsibilities

• Manage production and non-production workloads on Azure, ensuring reliability and security.
• Troubleshoot Azure services including VMs, App Services, AKS, KV, Load Balancers, and networking.
• Design and maintain scalable, highly available Azure cloud solutions.
• Perform root-cause analysis for production incidents and drive resolutions.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting with Azure tools.
• Apply SRE principles to improve platform stability and efficiency.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Develop IaC using Terraform, Bicep, and/or ARM templates for provisioning.
• Automate operational tasks to reduce manual intervention and risk.
• Support security, identity, RBAC, Key Vault, and access controls in Azure.
• Collaborate with security and infra teams on vulnerabilities and governance.
• Participate in incident, change, and release management with cross-team coordination.

Skills

Azure SRE

DevOps

Automation

Observability

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

AKS

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Title

Site Reliability Engineer

Job Location

Remote, USA.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security of applications and infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure.

The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on experience across Azure cloud infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, automation, security, and production support.

This role will be responsible for maintaining highly available Azure environments, improving operational reliability, automating repetitive activities, troubleshooting complex production issues, strengthening monitoring and alerting, and supporting incident and problem management. The successful candidate will work closely with application, infrastructure, DevOps, networking, and security teams to continuously improve the stability and resilience of the Azure platform.

Salary and Other Compensation

The annual salary for this position is up to $130K depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Key Responsibilities

1. Manage, monitor, and support production and non-production workloads on Microsoft Azure, ensuring reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security.
2. Support and troubleshoot Azure services including Virtual Machines, App Services, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure networking components.
3. Design, implement, and maintain scalable, resilient, highly available, and operationally reliable Azure cloud solutions.
4. Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, application connectivity, networking, performance, deployment, and availability issues, driving timely resolution and root-cause analysis.
5. Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, diagnostics, dashboards, and alerting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Azure-native monitoring solutions.
6. Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve service availability, platform stability, operational efficiency, and overall system reliability.
7. Build, maintain, enhance, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, supporting reliable and repeatable application and infrastructure deployments.
8. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Bicep, and/or ARM templates to automate and standardize Azure infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
9. Automate repetitive operational, deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure-management activities to reduce manual intervention and improve platform reliability.
10. Support Azure security, identity, and access management, including RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, network security, and related security controls.
11. Partner with security and infrastructure teams to address vulnerabilities, configuration issues, patching, security remediation, compliance, and cloud governance requirements.
12. Participate in incident, problem, change, and release management, perform root-cause analysis for production issues, maintain operational documentation, and collaborate across application, DevOps, infrastructure, networking, and security teams to drive continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure and production workloads.
• Strong understanding of Azure infrastructure architecture, availability, scalability, resiliency, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with key Azure services such as Virtual Machines, App Services, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, AKS, and Azure networking.
• Strong experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Hands-on experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Bicep, and/or ARM templates.
• Experience troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure, application connectivity, networking, performance, and availability issues.
• Experience supporting RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, identity/access controls, and network security in Azure.
• Experience supporting security remediation, vulnerability remediation, patching, governance, and compliance activities.
• Good knowledge of operational processes including incident management, problem management, change management, and release management.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to work effectively across application and infrastructure teams.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience operating AKS-based/containerized workloads in production environments.
• Experience automating repetitive cloud operations and production-support activities.
• Understanding of modern SRE and DevOps engineering practices.
• Experience working in enterprise-scale Azure environments with multiple applications and infrastructure components.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, application connectivity, load balancing, security, and identity concepts.
• Ability to analyze operational issues and translate recurring problems into automation or engineering improvements.
• Strong documentation, collaboration, and 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

Work model

At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a remote role in USA.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

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.