Site Reliability Engineer
 Cognizant Technology Solutions | |
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)
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 United States, Illinois, Chicago | |
 Mar 01, 2025 | |
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Site Reliability Engineer We are looking for a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining complex web applications. You will work on both front-end and back-end development, ensuring seamless integration and high performance. Location: Chicago, IL. **Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future** The candidate must be at the office for 5 days. Responsibilities * Demonstrates and champions site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team * Leads initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of your team's applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels * Collaborate with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and stakeholders to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers * Demonstrates a high level of technical expertise within one or more technical domains and proactively identifies and solves technology-related bottlenecks in your areas of expertise * Acts as the main point of contact during major incidents for your application and demonstrates the skills to identify and solve issues quickly to avoid financial losses * Documents and shares knowledge within your organization via internal forums and communities of practice Qualifications * Formal training or certification on Software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience * Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices with the ability to implement these practices within an application or platform * Fluency in at least one programming language such as (e.g., Python, Java Spring Boot, .Net, etc.) * Proficiency and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, SLO alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk. * Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, etc.) * Experience with container and container orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes, Docker) * Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills * Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform. also experience managing/supporting Cloud based applications, AWS preferred. * Excellent communications desired * Background Fin-tech experience may be helpful * Troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues Other Compensation: Applications will be accepted until May 12, 2025. The annual salary for this position is between $68,422K- $114,000K depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans. Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law. Why Choose Cognizant? Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical courses to keep your abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies. If you became comfortable with ambiguity, delight by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you! Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. We consider all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law. #LI-AS5 IND123 #CB | |