Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cognizant is a technology services company focused on digital transformation, cloud modernization, infrastructure, and security services. The AWS Infrastructure & Cloud Resilience Engineer will deploy AWS resilience solutions, lead failure analysis and resiliency game days, validate multi-region failover patterns, develop testing scenarios and runbooks, and guide application teams on resilience configuration.
Responsibilities
- Deploy and integrate AWS Resilience Hub and Fault Injection Service (FIS) within the customer environment and bundle into CFT/RefStack
- Lead Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) and resiliency game days; remediate issues identified during testing
- Validate multi-region resiliency patterns — active-active (3-region), warm standby, pilot light — across AZ and region failure scenarios
- Develop resilience testing scenarios and runbooks for customer application archetypes and produce resilience posture assessments
- Guide application teams as an SME on CDK TypeScript constructs for resilience configuration; support end-user adoption
Skills
- Mandatory skill: CDK (medium)
- AWS FIS(AWS Resilience Hub)
- Chaos Engineering
- Gremlin (Expert)
- DR Testing (Multi Region) (medium)
- Deploy and integrate AWS Resilience Hub and Fault Injection Service (FIS) within the customer environment and bundle into CFT/RefStack
- Lead Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) and resiliency game days; remediate issues identified during testing
- Validate multi-region resiliency patterns — active-active (3-region), warm standby, pilot light — across AZ and region failure scenarios
- Develop resilience testing scenarios and runbooks for customer application archetypes and produce resilience posture assessments
- Guide application teams as an SME on CDK TypeScript constructs for resilience configuration; support end-user adoption
- Resiliency testing (Level 300) — AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) and Resilience Hub; leading FMEA and resiliency game days; failover/recovery validation
- Multi-region resilience patterns (Level 300) — Active-active (3-region), warm standby, and pilot light patterns across AZ/region failures
- Infrastructure as code (Level 300) — CDK TypeScript constructs for resilience and observability configuration
- Observability (Level 200) — CloudWatch, AppSignals, ADOT/X-Ray to measure resilience test outcomes
- SRE practices (Level 200) — Incident response, change management, and continuous DR testing embedded in SRE ways of working
- Prior delivery experience in a large, regulated enterprise environment (financial services strongly preferred); comfortable operating under change-control and audit scrutiny
- Able to produce clear written documentation (architecture decision records, runbooks, design docs) suitable for client Tech Risk review
- Strong stakeholder communication; can work directly with client engineering, security, and SRE teams as an embedded SME
- Works to the stated engagement location / time-zone overlap and follows AWS ProServe and Customer onboarding, security, and vetting requirements
- AWS Professional certification preferred (e.g. Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer – Professional, or Security – Specialty as relevant to the role)
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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