Remote Azure SRE: Cloud Reliability & IaC Engineer

Cognizant; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Disability coverage

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security of applications and infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure.

The role requires strong hands-on Azure expertise, SRE practices, DevOps, IaC, observability, automation, and production support, with close collaboration across multiple teams. This is a remote role in the USA.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure and production workloads.
• Strong knowledge of SRE concepts, observability, and incident management.
• Experience building IaC and automated deployment pipelines.
• Ability to diagnose complex cloud networking and security issues.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support production and non-production workloads on Microsoft Azure.
• Design and maintain scalable, highly available Azure cloud solutions.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting with Azure tools.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates.
• Automate operations to reduce manual tasks and improve reliability.
• Support security, identity, and access management within Azure.
• Collaborate with security, infra, networking, and development teams on incident management.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for reliable deployments.

Skills

Azure

SRE

DevOps

Automation

Monitoring

IaC

Security

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

AKS

App Services

Key Vault

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

Azure DevOps

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security of applications and infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure.

The role requires strong hands-on Azure expertise, SRE practices, DevOps, IaC, observability, automation, and production support, with close collaboration across multiple teams. This is a remote role in the USA.