Remote Mainframe SRE Architect — Cloud & Automation Lead

Cognizant; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 119,000 - 139,000; 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 a Mainframe and SRE Architect to drive SRE frameworks across mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud environments. You will design architectures that ensure high availability, disaster recovery and fault tolerance while leading performance tuning of mainframe workloads.

The role requires extensive SRE experience, IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and strong security and monitoring capabilities. Remote work is supported with enterprise-scale cloud transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Rocket LCM and RACF security administration.
• IaC with Terraform and Ansible; cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud.
• Design AWS architectures for high availability, DR, and fault tolerance.
• Lead mainframe performance tuning using SMF data.
• Build YAML-based CI/CD pipelines for deployment and provisioning.
• Implement Terraform and Ansible for IaC and environment standardization.
• Manage Rocket LCM for mainframe deployments and release governance.
• Administer RACF security configurations.
• Integrate Kafka with AWS services and .NET apps.
• Enable DevSecOps with security scans and policy automation.
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana.
• Perform capacity planning and workload forecasting.
• Collaborate with cloud architects, DevOps, security, and app teams.
• Support cloud transformation and enterprise modernization.
• Work with enterprise data center operations and migration team.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Rocket LCM

RACF security

Terraform

Ansible

Cloud monitoring

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Mainframe and SRE Architect to drive SRE frameworks across mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud environments. You will design architectures that ensure high availability, disaster recovery and fault tolerance while leading performance tuning of mainframe workloads.

The role requires extensive SRE experience, IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and strong security and monitoring capabilities. Remote work is supported with enterprise-scale cloud transformation initiatives.