Cognizant

Site Reliability Engineer (Azure Cloud)

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17 hours ago
São Paulo, BrazilSenior

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of customer-facing enterprise applications in a 24x7 environment.
  • Design and implement automation to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency and system stability.
  • Monitor, analyze, and optimize application and platform performance while proactively resolving issues.
  • Lead incident response, problem management, root cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions.
  • Partner with development, infrastructure, and security teams to improve reliability, observability, compliance, and operational excellence.
  • Drive continuous improvement, document processes, share knowledge, mentor peers, and serve as a technical resource during critical production events.

Requirements

  • Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Application Support, Production Support, or a related enterprise application support role.
  • Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills in large-scale production environments.
  • Experience supporting cloud-based environments, preferably Microsoft Azure.
  • Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
  • Understanding of networking, databases, messaging platforms, authentication, access management, APIs, HTTP/HTTPS, encryption, and service communications.
  • Experience supporting microservices-based applications and distributed systems.
  • Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and operational support activities.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Preferred experience with Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms.
  • Preferred experience in regulated or financial services environments and knowledge of PCI DSS, NIST, CIS, security, compliance, networking, and performance engineering practices.
  • Preferred experience supporting high-volume customer-facing applications, cloud-native architectures, fintech, banking, payments, or financial technology platforms.

Benefits

  • The work model may be hybrid, remote, or office-based depending on business and client requirements, with arrangements discussed during recruitment.

Tech Stack

AzureBashDatadogGrafanaLinuxPrometheusPythonSplunk

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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