Remote Mainframe & SRE Architect

Cognizant; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 119,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Mainframe and SRE Architect to design and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms, focusing on high availability, performance tuning, and secure operations.

You will lead COBOL/DB2/CICS optimization, build CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and integrate observability with CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana, collaborating across cloud, security, and application teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Rocket LCM and RACF security administration.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and cloud monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid platforms.
• Design AWS architectures for high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance.
• Lead mainframe performance engineering and MIPS optimization.
• Optimize COBOL/DB2/CICS transactions and batch jobs for CPU efficiency.
• Build YAML-based CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and provisioning.
• Implement IaC to standardize environments and reliability.
• Manage mainframe deployment governance and release processes.
• Administer RACF security configurations and access controls.
• Integrate Kafka-based event-driven architectures with AWS and .NET apps.
• Enable DevOps and DevSecOps practices including security scanning and policy automation.
• Implement monitoring/observability with CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana.
• Perform capacity planning and workload forecasting.
• Collaborate with cloud architects, DevOps, security, and application teams.
• Support cloud transformation and enterprise modernization initiatives.

Skills

SRE

Rocket LCM

RACF security

Terraform

Ansible

Cloud monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudWatch

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Mainframe and SRE Architect to design and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms, focusing on high availability, performance tuning, and secure operations.

You will lead COBOL/DB2/CICS optimization, build CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and integrate observability with CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana, collaborating across cloud, security, and application teams.