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SRE aligned Infrastructure Architect

Cognizant North America
United States, Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Apr 29, 2025

SRE aligned Infrastructure Architect

Location : Milwaukee - WI

  • Maintain high availability of Data Center infrastructure (compute, storage, network, backup).
  • Design and implement robust monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, etc.).
  • Define and measure SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for infrastructure services.
  • Identify repetitive manual tasks (toil) and implement automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or scripting (Python, Shell, PowerShell).
  • Enable infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices for provisioning and configuration.
  • Lead or participate in on-call rotations for Data Center incidents.
  • Drive post-incident reviews using blameless retrospectives to uncover root causes and implement systemic fixes (RCAs with actionable insights).
  • Develop runbooks, dashboards, and self-healing routines to reduce MTTR.
  • Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to design scalable and fault-tolerant infrastructure solutions.
  • Lead capacity planning, hardware refresh cycles, and cost optimization initiatives.
  • Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies for better efficiency and sustainability.
  • Perform installation, configuration and technical administration activities for all client data center and cloud systems that include Unix/Linux operating systems, middleware instances, cloud compute and OpenShift nodes
  • Carry out performance tuning for all client data center and cloud systems; activities include developing tuning plans, performing system tuning and load balancing to improve performance, correct transmission slowdowns, congestion, malfunctions, and abnormalities.
  • Carry out capacity planning, forecasting and implementation for data center and cloud systems
  • Simplify composite business tasks into tactical actions by implementing appropriate technologies, applying reasonable problem solving and logical thinking skills
  • Enable a smooth liaison with clients in understanding, identifying areas of improvement and procuring new tasks that could add as additional business.

Qualifications

  • Possess a strong understanding of SRE aligned infrastructure support operating model.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of database basics to support infrastructure needs.
  • Show proficiency in managing storage platforms for optimal performance.
  • Understand network basics to ensure reliable connectivity.
  • Be skilled in using migration tools for efficient data and application migrations. Should Have experience in migration planning to ensure smooth transitions.
  • Experience in compute platforms to support business applications.
  • Understand cloud basics to design scalable cloud solutions.
  • Have excellent troubleshooting skills to resolve infrastructure issues.
  • Possess strong documentation skills for recording infrastructure processes.
  • Be able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Demonstrate the ability to monitor and maintain infrastructure performance

Certifications: Good to have cloud platform architecture certification, SRE certified professional or SRE foundation

Skill Proficiency

(Top 5 Keywords or skills)

Years of Experience

Basic Knowledge

Medium

Expert

Data Center Infrastructure

6-8

X

Cloud Systems & SRE

4-5

X

Linux Unix Middleware

4-5

X

Cloud Compute & Open Shift

4-5

X

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