Remote Mainframe & SRE Architect for Hybrid Cloud

Cognizant; Honolulu (HI); 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 work in a remote capacity. You will architect SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms, design resilient AWS architectures, and lead performance optimization using SMF/MIPS data.

You will implement IaC (Terraform, Ansible), manage Rocket LCM and RACF configurations, and build YAML-based CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment. The role emphasizes DevSecOps, cloud observability with CloudWatch/Splunk/Dynatrace/Grafana, and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Infra as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Cloud monitoring and observability with CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana.
• Experience with RACF security administration and Rocket LCM.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms.
• Design AWS architectures for high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance.
• Lead mainframe performance engineering and MIPS optimization.
• Build CI/CD pipelines with YAML for automated deployment and provisioning.
• Implement IaC to standardize environments and improve deployment reliability.
• Manage Rocket LCM for automated mainframe deployments and release governance.
• Administer RACF configurations including access control and profiles.
• Integrate Kafka-based event-driven architecture with AWS services.
• Enable DevOps and Security-Ops practices with security scanning and policy automation.
• Implement monitoring with CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with cloud architects, DevOps, security and application teams.

Skills

SRE expertise

DevSecOps

Cloud monitoring

CI/CD pipelines

Performance engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudWatch

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

RACF

Rocket LCM

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Mainframe and SRE Architect to work in a remote capacity. You will architect SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms, design resilient AWS architectures, and lead performance optimization using SMF/MIPS data.

You will implement IaC (Terraform, Ansible), manage Rocket LCM and RACF configurations, and build YAML-based CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment. The role emphasizes DevSecOps, cloud observability with CloudWatch/Splunk/Dynatrace/Grafana, and