Remote Azure SRE: Reliability & Automation Lead

Cognizant

Phoenix (AZ)

Remote

USD 117,000 - 143,000

Full time

4 days ago
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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 to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security of applications hosted on Microsoft Azure. The role focuses on Azure infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, IaC, observability, automation, security, and production support.

This role will be responsible for maintaining highly available Azure environments, improving operational reliability, automating repetitive activities,

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure and production workloads.
  • Strong knowledge of SRE practices and DevOps in cloud environments.
  • Experience with IaC, monitoring, security, and automation.

Responsibilities

  • Manage production and non-production workloads on Azure, ensuring reliability and security.
  • Troubleshoot Azure services (VMs, App Services, AKS, networking) and optimize performance.
  • Design scalable, highly available cloud solutions and automate deployments.
  • Maintain monitoring, logging, diagnostics, dashboards, and alerting using Azure tools.
  • Apply SRE principles to improve platform stability and operational efficiency.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and IaC tooling.

Skills

Azure infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineering
DevOps
IaC
Observability
Automation
Security
Production support

Tools

Terraform
Bicep
ARM templates
Azure DevOps
Azure Monitor
Log Analytics
Application Insights
AKS
App Services
Key Vault

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security of applications hosted on Microsoft Azure. The role focuses on Azure infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, IaC, observability, automation, security, and production support.

This role will be responsible for maintaining highly available Azure environments, improving operational reliability, automating repetitive activities,

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