Cognizant · 3 days ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Distributed Systems
Arizona City, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expCognizant is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and implement observability solutions for distributed edge computing environments. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability and performance while developing frameworks for monitoring and incident response.
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Responsibilities
Design and implement observability frameworks for edge computing environments, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and metrics collection
Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and business KPIs to measure and enhance system reliability across edge and centralized infrastructure
Build dashboards, visualizations, and alerting systems for real-time insights and incident response
Implement distributed tracing and log aggregation systems to troubleshoot complex edge issues
Collaborate with engineering teams to embed observability best practices into edge applications and infrastructure
Proactively identify issues using advanced observability tools, reducing MTTD and MTTR
Lead incident postmortems and implement observability-driven improvements
Develop automation scripts and tools to optimize observability pipelines for bandwidth-constrained environments
Optimize data storage and querying strategies for performance, cost, and scalability
Stay current with emerging observability trends and advocate for adoption of edge-specific solutions
Qualification
Required
10+ years of IT experience
3–5 years of experience in service reliability/operations for large-scale hybrid environments
3–5 years of experience writing automation scripts and building dashboards for application performance management
2–4 years of experience with programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, or Rust
Working knowledge of databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Redis, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or time-series databases
At least 2 years of experience with cloud platforms and containerization (GCP, AWS, Rancher, Azure, OpenShift)
Experience maintaining containerized apps in GKE/RKE/AKE environments
Experience implementing cloud observability using OpenTelemetry (OTEL)
Experience with GraphQL frameworks (Apollo, Prisma, Hasura)
Strong understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, load balancing, service mesh)
Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT or equivalent
Preferred
Proven experience managing application availability and building automation for high-availability platforms
Hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana/Prometheus, and Dynatrace
Experience with CI/CD tools and extenders such as Rally and Confluence
Experience With In-memory Caching Solutions (Redis Preferred)
Strong debugging skills across integrated technical platforms and API gateways
Hands-on experience with GCS, Cloud SQL, Spanner, and Firestore
Experience in enterprise-level infrastructure and operations
Expertise in high-availability and distributed systems, Linux/Windows administration, and support
Experience monitoring and troubleshooting HashiCorp Vault environments
Working knowledge of Vertex AI, Gen AI, and BigQuery
Benefits
Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Company
Cognizant
Cognizant is a professional services company that helps clients alter their business, operating, and technology models for the digital era.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$0.24MKey Investors
Summit Financial Wealth Advisors
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