Cognizant

Mainframe and SRE Architect

Cognizant$119K — $139K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Expertise in Rocket LCM and RACF security administration
  • Proficient with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
  • Experience in cloud monitoring tools including CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana
  • Strong knowledge of AWS architecture and services

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement SRE frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud
  • Design AWS architectures for high availability and scalability
  • Lead performance engineering initiatives and optimize MIPS
  • Enhance COBOL and DB2 transactions to improve system performance
  • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code and standardize environments
  • Administer security configurations with RACF and manage access controls

Benefits

  • 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
Full Job Description
Mainframe and SRE Architect

Location : Remote

Roles and responsibilities :-
  • Architect and implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) frameworks for mainframe and AWS hybrid cloud platforms
  • Design AWS cloud architectures supporting high availability, scalability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance
  • Lead mainframe performance engineering and MIPS optimization initiatives using SMF data analysis and workload tuning
  • Optimize COBOL, DB2, CICS transactions and batch jobs to reduce CPU utilization and improve overall system performance
  • Build and manage YAML-based CI/CD pipelines enabling automated application deployment and infrastructure provisioning
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) to standardize environments and improve deployment reliability
  • Manage Rocket LCM (Lifecycle Management) for automated mainframe application deployments, version control, and release governance
  • Administer RACF security configurations including profile creation, access control management, and group administration
  • Integrate Kafka-based event-driven architectures with AWS services and .NET enterprise applications
  • Enable DevOps automation and Security-Ops (DevSecOps) practices including security scanning, compliance enforcement, and policy automation
  • Implement monitoring and observability solutions using CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana
  • Perform capacity planning, workload scheduling, and performance forecasting
  • Collaborate with cloud architects, DevOps engineers, security teams, and application teams
  • Support cloud transformation programs and enterprise modernization initiatives
  • work with enterprise data centre operations and migration program Team

Expert Level expertise need below :-
  • Extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
  • Rocket LCM & RACF security administration
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and cloud monitoring (CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana).

Salary and Other Compensation:

The Salary for this position will be 119,000 to 139,000 early 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 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.

About Cognizant

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With technology solutions touching more than half the U.S. population today, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of core benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. TriZetto provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers.

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$1.3 billion
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1994
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