Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking a passionate, high energy, Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing and dynamic comms media practice. Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our people and clients. We are seeking someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration. If you are excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we would love to hear from you!

Why choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams. We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. We help clients engage customers by envisioning and building creative products and services. But we do not stop there. We develop go-to-market strategies and invent entirely new business models, ensuring that every company we work with walks away with both inspiration and a plan. Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients, our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

What do you need to succeed?

Responsibilities

• Build, design, deploy, maintain and lead the implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple public cloud offerings, e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure and Private Cloud
• Develop, enhance, and maintain automation of cloud enablement tools
• Participate in technology evaluation and reengineering teams to support strategy-definition and continuous process improvement activities
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required; maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment
• Implement and refine cloud future state architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices
• Adhere to firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and familiarity with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations
• Participate in the design, implementation and management of workload automation initiatives Adhere to firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and familiarity with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations
• Participate in the design, implementation and management of workload automation initiatives

Skills Required

• Technical knowledge of infrastructure components such as Network, Storage, Linux/Windows
• 10+ years of relevant IT experience
• Experience with configuring software defined networking and security configurations, including security groups and ACLs
• 5+ years of experience as an enterprise systems administrator in a client or server environment, including deployment automation tools, such as Ansible
• Specific experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including VPC, EC2, Network, ELB, EBS, EMR, Redshift, RDS, and IAM
• Certifications on Amazon Web Services, including Solutions Architect, Developer, or Azure are highly desirable
• Experience with troubleshooting very complex distributed environments pertaining to connectivity and application performance and monitoring tools and offering high-level strategic planning and advice to an entity that will allow for the successful adoption or migration of Cloud-based technologies or services
• 5+ years working with cloud platforms
• Extensive knowledge of Linux based systems including Hardware, software, networking and storage
• Broad experience with cloud adoption, including application readiness assessment, prototyping of new environments, server builds, data migration, performance tuning of cloud environments
• Experience with DevOps procedures and processes and with working in an Agile environment
• Experience architecting cloud infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for small, medium scale and enterprise level applications

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Jul 05 2023

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.