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Cognizant Technology Solutions is looking for an
AWS Cloud Engineer to join the team of IT professionals in a role. If you meet our background requirements and skills and are in search of an opportunity with these skills and expertise, here is the opportunity for you!
- Role: AWS Cloud Engineer
- Experience: Minimum 7+ years of solid experience.
"Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future need for visa sponsorship."
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and translate business requirements into technical specifications
- Design and document scalable, secure, and reliable system architectures
- Set, enforce, and update technical standards, architecture patterns, and coding guidelines across projects
- Ensure that all systems meet security, compliance, and quality standards required by the organization
- Communicate with end-users (clients) and interact with technical teams
- Troubleshoot end-users’ issues and determine the root cause of the issue - Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, providing timely and effective solutions to ensure minimal disruption to the end-users
- Learn end-to-end flow for new applications
- Monitor applications, handle outages/maintenance/upgrade activities
- Be pro-active and determine ways to improve application performance (infra and app specific)
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications by conducting thorough continuous monitoring/testing/code & infr0061 walkthrough
- Provide technical guidance to the application team incase of issues determined during troubleshooting
- Utilize AWS services and monitor key performance indicators to determine how the application is running
Required Qualifications
- AWS Services Knowledge/experience – Prefer knowledge with key services like CloudFront, OpenSearch, Glu Jobs, Athena, Lambda functions, DNS
- Good performance tuning experience both on the front-end and back-end including automation experience
- Strong technical skills in systems architecture, security risk management, virtualization, cloud technologies, and IT management
- Graphana experience - ServiceNow experience as an end-user as this will be the ticketing tool - Database knowledge and expertise – SQL, DynamoDB, PostGre, SubProd data refresh, Data fixes
- Good expertise in NodeJS, Java, Angular
- Very good troubleshooting and application support expertise as it requires app monitoring, outage handling, upgrade and maintenance activities including infrastructure level support handling
- Excellent communication skills – requires interaction with multiple teams, end-users, infrastructure point of contacts and pro-active communication with different teams
Salary And Other Compensation
The annual salary for the position is between $ 68,422 – $ 114,000 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:
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
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
