Azure Site Reliability Engineer Job Paterson area,New Jersey USA,IT/Tech

Job Title:

Site Reliability Engineer

Job Location:

Remote, USA.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security of applications and infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure.

The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on experience across Azure cloud infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, automation, security, and production support .

This role will be responsible for maintaining highly available Azure environments, improving operational reliability, automating repetitive activities, troubleshooting complex production issues, strengthening monitoring and alerting, and supporting incident and problem management. The successful candidate will work closely with application, infrastructure, Dev Ops, networking, and security teams to continuously improve the stability and resilience of the Azure platform.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is up to $130K 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.

Key Responsibilities

Manage, monitor, and support production and non-production workloads on Microsoft Azure , ensuring reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and security.

Support and troubleshoot Azure services including Virtual Machines, App Services, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure networking components .

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, resilient, highly available, and operationally reliable Azure cloud solutions .

Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, application connectivity, networking, performance, deployment, and availability issues , driving timely resolution and root-cause analysis.

Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, diagnostics, dashboards, and alerting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Azure-native monitoring solutions .

Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve service availability, platform stability, operational efficiency, and overall system reliability.

Build, maintain, enhance, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops , supporting reliable and repeatable application and infrastructure deployments.

Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Bicep, and/or ARM templates to automate and standardize Azure infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

Automate repetitive operational, deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure-management activities to reduce manual intervention and improve platform reliability .

Support Azure security, identity, and access management , including RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, network security, and related security controls .

Partner with security and infrastructure teams to address vulnerabilities, configuration issues, patching, security remediation, compliance, and cloud governance requirements .

Participate in incident, problem, change, and release management , perform root-cause analysis for production issues, maintain operational documentation, and collaborate across application, Dev Ops, infrastructure, networking, and security teams to drive continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

Strong hands-on experience supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure and production workloads .
Strong understanding of Azure infrastructure architecture, availability, scalability, resiliency, and troubleshooting.
Hands-on experience with key Azure services such…