Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Remote -CST)

Davita Inc.; Riverwoods (IL); Remote; USD 81,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Digital Engineering is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to innovate cloud-based solutions. With a focus on collaboration and SRE principles, the role involves hands-on experience in automation, incident management, and team leadership. Join a diverse team in driving continuous improvement for a dynamic client base.

Qualifications

• 10 to 15 years of experience required.
• Experience with SRE principles and cloud native technologies.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement core SRE principles and practices.
• Manage automation and triage production incidents.
• Work on Estimation & Resource Planning.

Skills

SRE activities

Cloud Concepts

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux/Unix

Java

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Grafana

Splunk

AWS

Job description

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Remote -CST) About Cognizant's Digital Engineering Practice:

At Cognizant Digital Engineering, a small multi-functional team comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, UI/UX designers and Big Data analysts builds higher quality software faster siloed individuals working independently. Small, forward-thinking engineering teams generate collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality work you're doing. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies.

The Role:

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Lead Site Reliability Engineer to serve our diverse base of global clients. As a member of our team, you will build innovative, cloud-based software that powers modern business. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the "team", drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.

Location: Chicago, IL (Remote -CST)

**Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future**

Roles, Responsibilities

• Must have hands on experience on performing SRE activities on their own
• Excel on implementing core SRE principles and practices
• Work closely with team on Estimation & Resource Planning and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• Understand management requirements and strategize planning from SRE and resiliency perspective
• Specialized in building and managing automation
• Triage and RCA of production incidents
• Observability and monitoring with APM tools and creating dashboards/alerts and automation for incidents
• Leadership qualities like cross teams collaboration and effective communication

Required Qualifications

• 10 to 15 years of experience
• SRE Chaos/ Resiliency Engineering-Primer
• SRE Monitor&Observ-Primer,
• SRE,
• Cloud Concepts,
• Kubernetes,
• Docker,
• Cloud native technologies,
• Linux/Unix,
• Java,
• Python,
• Terraform,
• Ansible,
• Monitoring tools,
• Grafana,
• Splunk,
• Databases,
• APM,
• AWS,
• Openshift

Applications will be accepted until 06/15/2025.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $81,337 - $141,500 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.

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.

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