Remote Mainframe & SRE Architect | Cloud, CI/CD, IaC

Cognizant; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 119,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Discretionary annual incentive

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Mainframe and SRE Architect to design and implement SRE frameworks across mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms. Responsibilities include optimizing mainframe performance, building CI/CD pipelines, and implementing IaC for reliable deployments.

The role focuses on high availability, disaster recovery, and scalable architectures with strong emphasis on security and observability. Remote work is supported with Cognizant’s flexible policies.

Qualifications

• Extensive SRE experience across mainframe and cloud environments.
• Experience with RACF security administration and access control.
• Proven ability to implement IaC and observability tooling in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms.
• Design AWS architectures for high availability, DR, and fault tolerance.
• Lead mainframe performance optimization using SMF data analysis and workload tuning.
• Build YAML-based CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and infrastructure provisioning.
• Implement Terraform and Ansible to standardize environments and improve deployment reliability.

Skills

SRE expertise

RACF security admin

DevOps automation

Cloud monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudWatch

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Mainframe and SRE Architect to design and implement SRE frameworks across mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms. Responsibilities include optimizing mainframe performance, building CI/CD pipelines, and implementing IaC for reliable deployments.

The role focuses on high availability, disaster recovery, and scalable architectures with strong emphasis on security and observability. Remote work is supported with Cognizant’s flexible policies.