United States

Cognizant is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Ensure stable operation of data workflows built on Snowflake and dbt.
  • Support reliable transitions during platform and workload migrations.
  • Implement and maintain monitoring systems, alerts, and visualization dashboards.
  • Demonstrate deep knowledge of core AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and Lambda.
  • Manage Snowflake environments with focus on performance tuning, cost controls, and incident resolution.
  • Troubleshoot operational issues in dbt pipelines and model dependencies.
  • Utilize observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, and Splunk for system insights.
  • Maintain CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, GitLab, and Jenkins.
  • Apply core SRE principles including service level objectives, error budgets, root cause analysis, and automation.
  • Take ownership of incidents and lead thorough post-mortem investigations.

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience

Work Arrangement

Hybrid or remote work options available based on role and location

Team

Collaborative engineering team focused on data platform reliability and scalability

Responsibilities

  • Reliability for Snowflake + dbt workloads.
  • Migration reliability engineering.
  • Monitoring, alerting, dashboards.
  • AWS core services expertise (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda).
  • Snowflake operations, tuning, cost governance, incident response.
  • dbt operations & model dependency debugging.
  • Observability with Grafana/Prometheus/Datadog/Splunk.
  • CI/CD with Terraform, GitLab/Jenkins.
  • Strong SRE fundamentals: SLO/SLA/Error Budgets, RCA, automation.
  • Incident ownership & RCA.

Visa sponsorship may be available for qualified candidates

Required Skills
AWSEC2S3IAMVPCCloudWatchLambdaSnowflakedbtGrafanaPrometheusDatadogSplunkTerraformGitLab AWSEC2S3IAMVPCCloudWatchLambdaSnowflakedbtGrafanaPrometheusDatadogSplunkTerraformGitLab
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Cognizant
Cognizant is a global technology and professional services leader, empowering clients to reimagine processes, innovate and transform in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. In the UK, we work with major public sector bodies to deliver secure, scalable, citizen-centred digital services that make a real impact.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 2 months ago