Azure SRE - Remote Cloud Reliability Engineer

Cognizant; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, availability, and security for Azure-hosted applications and infrastructure. You will manage production and non-production workloads on Azure and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve resilience.

You will automate with IaC, build scalable Azure solutions, implement monitoring with Azure Monitor and Application Insights, and support incident and problem management to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and production workloads.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Experience building and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
• Proficient with IaC using Terraform, Bicep, and/or ARM templates.
• Ability to design scalable, highly available Azure solutions and automate repeatable tasks.
• Experience with security controls, identity, and access management in Azure.

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 VMs, App Services, Storage, Key Vault, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, AKS, and network components.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, resilient cloud solutions in Azure.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, connectivity, networking, performance, deployment, and availability issues with root-cause analysis.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, diagnostics, dashboards, and alerting using Azure Monitor and related tools.
• Apply SRE principles to improve service availability, stability, and operational efficiency.
• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Develop IaC solutions with Terraform, Bicep, and/or ARM templates for provisioning and config.
• Automate repetitive operational activities to reduce manual intervention and improve reliability.
• Support Azure security, IAM, RBAC, and related security controls.
• Collaborate with security and infra teams on vulnerabilities, patching, governance, and compliance.
• Participate in incident, problem, change, and release management with cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Azure infrastructure

DevOps

IaC

Observability

Automation

Security

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

AKS

Key Vault

Log Analytics

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, availability, and security for Azure-hosted applications and infrastructure. You will manage production and non-production workloads on Azure and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve resilience.

You will automate with IaC, build scalable Azure solutions, implement monitoring with Azure Monitor and Application Insights, and support incident and problem management to drive continuous improvement.