Cognizant

Site Reliability Engineer (Observability)

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5 days ago
Hartford, WI, USASenior

Base Salary

$132k - $152k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement enterprise observability solutions using AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and related monitoring platforms.
  • Establish performance baselines, SLIs/SLOs, and monitoring standards to improve application availability and user experience.
  • Analyze application and infrastructure telemetry to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize reliability.
  • Lead root cause analysis and provide architectural recommendations to prevent recurring incidents.
  • Partner with engineering and operations teams to improve alerting, runbooks, incident management processes, and platform resilience.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related disciplines.
  • Hands-on enterprise experience with AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk, and Grafana.
  • Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, and SRE best practices.
  • Experience supporting cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with New Relic, enterprise observability strategies, reliability frameworks, distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architectures, automation, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud certifications.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement in Hartford, Connecticut, subject to business, project, and client requirements.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • Paid holidays and paid time off.
  • 401(k) plan and contributions.
  • Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards based on performance and applicable plan terms.

Tech Stack

Categories

Site Reliability
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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.

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