Azure SRE & Cloud Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Cognizant; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, availability, and security of Azure-based applications and infrastructure. The role emphasizes automation, IaC, monitoring, and cross-team collaboration across application, infrastructure, DevOps, networking, and security teams.

Ideal candidates will have hands-on Azure cloud experience, SRE/DevOps mindset, and strong incident/problem management skills, with the ability to design scalable, secure

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure and production workloads.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Azure administration

SRE & DevOps

IaC

Monitoring & observability

Automation

Incident response

Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Kubernetes Service

CI/CD pipelines

Azure Monitor

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

PowerShell/CLI

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, availability, and security of Azure-based applications and infrastructure. The role emphasizes automation, IaC, monitoring, and cross-team collaboration across application, infrastructure, DevOps, networking, and security teams.

Ideal candidates will have hands-on Azure cloud experience, SRE/DevOps mindset, and strong incident/problem management skills, with the ability to design scalable, secure