Senior SRE Lead — Hybrid Cloud Reliability

Cognizant; Bridgewater (MA); Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid time off

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to drive stability, resiliency, and performance of mission‑critical enterprise applications across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will lead complex incident responses, implement preventive measures, enhance observability with Splunk, automate with Python, Shell, and Ansible, and coordinate with cross‑functional teams to ensure service levels. Note: visa transfer or sponsorship is not available now or in the future.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE, production support, or related fields.
• Strong expertise with WebSphere and Tomcat, plus middleware.
• AWS experience (EC2, ALB, networking, security).
• Networking basics and load balancing concepts.
• DB2/Oracle connectivity and performance understanding.
• Splunk observability and Python/Shell with Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Drive reliability and availability across hybrid infrastructure.
• Lead incident management to minimize disruption across stacks.
• Assess deployments for production risk and safe rollouts.
• Root cause analyses and long-term corrective actions.
• Build observability using Splunk and related tools.
• Automate operations with Python, Shell, and Ansible.
• Plan resiliency and disaster recovery exercises.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and offshore teams.

Skills

SRE experience

Incident management

JVM performance tuning

AWS cloud

Networking concepts

Tools

WebSphere

Tomcat

IBM DB2

Oracle

JDBC

Splunk

Ansible

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to drive stability, resiliency, and performance of mission‑critical enterprise applications across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will lead complex incident responses, implement preventive measures, enhance observability with Splunk, automate with Python, Shell, and Ansible, and coordinate with cross‑functional teams to ensure service levels. Note: visa transfer or sponsorship is not available now or in the future.