Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cognizant/Cisco is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate reliable, scalable Kubernetes platforms for regulated environments such as FedRAMP High and DoD IL5. The role focuses on platform reliability, monitoring, automation, infrastructure as code, compliance, CI/CD improvements, and collaboration with senior engineers and cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of Kubernetes platforms in FedRAMP High / IL5 environments
- Support day-to-day reliability and performance of platform services, including monitoring and alerting
- Implement automation and tooling to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort
- Work with senior engineers to define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Assist in maintaining compliance and security requirements, including support for audits and continuous monitoring
- Contribute to infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipeline improvements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Security, Platform, Application teams) to resolve issues and deliver platform capabilities
- Participate in on-call rotations supporting customer requests and paging alerts
Skills
- 4–6 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
- Experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or similar; GovCloud experience a plus)
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and containerization
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- Proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g., Python, Go)
- Exposure to observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, logging systems)
- Experience working in FedRAMP High or DoD IL5 environments
- Exposure to CI/CD systems and deployment automation (e.g., ArgoCD)
- Familiarity with container security practices and tools
- Experience supporting regulated or audited systems
Benefits
- 100% Remote
- Work Schedule: 100% Remote
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