2 months ago
Lake Forest, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$130k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research, define, and validate cloud-native architectural patterns for scalability, reliability, availability, and operational efficiency.
- Design and optimize large-scale Azure AKS and AWS EKS deployments, including scheduling, autoscaling, resource optimization, and multi-tenant architectures.
- Architect highly available and fault-tolerant systems and define disaster recovery, resiliency, and reliability engineering practices.
- Improve platform observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring frameworks.
- Drive cloud cost optimization, analyze infrastructure consumption, and address platform bottlenecks.
- Partner with validation and testing teams on large-scale performance and resiliency scenarios and production-scale workload simulations.
- Lead proof-of-concept initiatives, mentor engineering teams, and promote platform engineering and automation practices.
Requirements
- 12+ years of overall software or cloud engineering experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes architecture and administration experience.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals, including control planes, scheduling, networking, service mesh, network policies, resource management, and security.
- Expert-level experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Azure cloud services, and AWS cloud services.
- Strong experience with Terraform, Bicep, infrastructure as code, and configuration automation.
- Experience implementing GitOps, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing.
- Deep understanding of large-scale distributed architectures, high availability, fault tolerance, scalability patterns, multi-tenancy, and performance engineering.
- Preferred qualifications include SRE practices, SaaS platform operations at scale, FinOps and cloud cost optimization, service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd, and platform engineering.
Benefits
- 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.
- Full benefits are subject to applicable eligibility requirements; the role is onsite and applications are accepted through 10/25/2026.
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About Cognizant
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.