6 days ago
Glasgow, United KingdomSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design and implement highly available, resilient application infrastructure on AWS across hybrid environments.
- Optimize Kubernetes container platforms through resource tuning, scaling strategies, and deployment pipeline improvements.
- Develop and maintain Java Spring Boot microservices focused on reliability, modularity, resilience, and maintainability.
- Create monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and analytics using Splunk to improve observability and proactive issue detection.
- Apply SRE practices including error budgets, service level indicators, service level objectives, incident management, and reliability metrics.
- Conduct production incident root cause analyses and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Automate deployments, rollbacks, configuration updates, and health checks.
- Implement capacity planning and performance testing strategies for growth and response-time objectives.
- Document runbooks, operational procedures, and reliability patterns for incident response and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with application engineers, platform teams, and stakeholders in asset and wealth management to develop scalable reliability solutions.
- Integrate security, compliance, and governance requirements into SRE workflows and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Eight to twelve years of experience working as a Site Reliability Engineer in complex environments with a focus on reliability and performance.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS services for compute, storage, networking, and managed application components.
- Experience implementing SRE frameworks including observability, incident management, error budgets, and service level definitions.
- Advanced Splunk experience covering log management, custom dashboards, alerts, and analytics.
- Production experience managing Kubernetes clusters, including configuration, scaling, workload orchestration, and troubleshooting.
- Deep proficiency building and maintaining Spring Boot microservices with Java.
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is required.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification is required.
- Splunk Core Certified Power User certification is required.
- Background in asset and wealth management is preferred.
Benefits
- Fully onsite work at the Glasgow, UK office five days per week.
- Candidates must be available to start within four weeks of receiving an offer.
- Candidates must currently reside in the UK.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
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.