Remote Mainframe & SRE Architect for Hybrid Cloud

Cognizant; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 119,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Mainframe and SRE Architect for a remote role. You will architect SRE frameworks across mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms, optimize performance, and lead Terraform/Ansible-based deployments with CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities include designing high-availability architectures, DR, performance tuning, and embedding security automation within DevOps practices. Compensation and benefits reflect senior-level expertise and Cognizant standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Rocket LCM & RACF security administration.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and cloud monitoring (CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana).
• Experience architecting SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms.
• Design AWS cloud architectures supporting high availability, scalability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance.
• Lead mainframe performance engineering and MIPS optimization initiatives using SMF data analysis and workload tuning.
• Build and manage YAML-based CI/CD pipelines enabling automated deployment and infrastructure provisioning.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) to standardize environments and improve deployment reliability.
• Integrate Kafka-based event-driven architectures with AWS services and .NET applications.
• Enable DevOps automation and Security-Ops practices including security scanning and policy automation.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Rocket LCM & RACF security

Security automation

CI/CD pipelines (YAML)

DevSecOps

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudWatch

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Mainframe and SRE Architect for a remote role. You will architect SRE frameworks across mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms, optimize performance, and lead Terraform/Ansible-based deployments with CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities include designing high-availability architectures, DR, performance tuning, and embedding security automation within DevOps practices. Compensation and benefits reflect senior-level expertise and Cognizant standards.