Site Reliability Engineer w/ Java experience (On site)

Site Reliability Engineer w/ Java experience (On site)

We are looking for a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will bringin Java, Linux, DevOps and AWS. This role encompasses leadership responsibilities, including different planning strategies. By ensuring robust and efficient system operations, the candidate will play a key role in advancing our company's mission.

Location: Riverwoods, IL - USA (On site)

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

• SRE R2 Engineer/Architect Profile.
• Strong Scrum background.
• Delivering superior Reliability & Resilency outcomes.
• Strong expertise in Java / Linux / DevOps / GitHub / CICD / Ansible / Cloud / Redhat OCP/Datadog/Splunk with special focus on performance.
• Preferably in Banking / Payments industry experience.

• BS/BA degree or an equivalent 8+ years of experience.
• SRE design to address reliability and resiliency with availability of 5-9s.
• Experience in working in a cloud environment (OCP and AWS EMR).
• Experience with application monitoring tools, observability, and performance evaluations.
• Strong experience with DevOps (CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub)
• High level of familiarity with the Linux command line and scripting
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring and testing
• Experience developing automation solutions in Java, bash, Python, Perl (or other similar languages)
• Extremely comfortable with production environments, firewalls, and networking
• Studied architectural patterns at scale, including thoughtfully designed APIs, repeatable delivery pipelines, and efficient computer engineering principles.
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
• Extensive experience in deploying, observing, altering, logging, and monitoring systems (Splunk, Datadog) with a mentality for predictive analysis.
• Working knowledge of the automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform.
• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
• Guides early-career engineers by assigning learning tasks and work-related responsibilities, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to improve their technical abilities through mentorship.
• Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.
• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.
• Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.
• Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.

The annual salary for this position is between $81,331k - $141K depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Applications will be received by May 11th, 2025.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance.
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off.
• 401(k) plan and contributions.
• Long-term/Short-term Disability.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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 in 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.