Remote Mainframe & SRE Architect: Cloud & CI/CD

Cognizant; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 119,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays + PTO

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Mainframe and SRE Architect to design and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms, driving performance engineering and workload tuning.

Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, managing Terraform/Ansible-based IaC, RACF security, and integrating monitoring with CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana while collaborating with cloud, security, and application teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive SRE experience with enterprise-scale systems.
• Proven Rocket LCM and RACF security administration.
• Strong IaC skills with Terraform and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud.
• Design AWS architectures for high availability and DR.
• Lead mainframe performance tuning using SMF data.
• Optimize COBOL/DB2/CICS and batch jobs for CPU efficiency.
• Build YAML-based CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Implement Terraform and Ansible to standardize environments.
• Manage Rocket LCM deployments and release governance.
• Ensure security configurations with RACF and DevSecOps practices.

Skills

SRE expertise

Rocket LCM

Terraform Ansible

Cloud monitoring

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudWatch

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Mainframe and SRE Architect to design and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms, driving performance engineering and workload tuning.

Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, managing Terraform/Ansible-based IaC, RACF security, and integrating monitoring with CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana while collaborating with cloud, security, and application teams.