Remote Azure SRE: Cloud Reliability & DevOps

Cognizant; Olympia (WA); 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 Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure reliability, performance, and security of Azure-based applications and infrastructure.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, incident response, and collaboration with security, networking, and DevOps teams to improve platform resilience. This remote USA position offers competitive compensation and eligibility for Cognizant’s incentive program.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and production workloads.
• Hands-on experience with Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, IaC, observability, automation, and security.

Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor, and support production and non-production workloads on Microsoft Azure, ensuring reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security.
• Troubleshoot Azure services including Virtual Machines, App Services, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, AKS, and networking components.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available Azure cloud solutions.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Create IaC using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates to automate provisioning.

Skills

Azure

SRE

DevOps

IaC

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

AKS

Azure Monitor

Job description

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

The role emphasizes automation, observability, incident response, and collaboration with security, networking, and DevOps teams to improve platform resilience. This remote USA position offers competitive compensation and eligibility for Cognizant’s incentive program.