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Job Summary:
Cognizant is a leading technology company focused on delivering innovative solutions. As a Cloud Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain high-quality software applications, primarily utilizing AWS services, while collaborating with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Design and document scalable, secure, and reliable system architectures.
• Set, enforce, and update technical standards, architecture patterns, and coding guidelines across projects.
• Ensure that all systems meet security, compliance, and quality standards required by the organization.
• Communicate with end-users (clients) and interact with technical teams.
• Troubleshoot end-user’s issues and determine the root cause of the issue.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, providing timely and effective solutions to ensure minimal disruption to the end-users.
• Learn end-to-end flow for new applications.
• Monitor applications, handle outages/maintenance/upgrade activities.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related, and 10 years of relevant experience.
• AWS Services Knowledge/experience – Prefer knowledge with key services like CloudFront, OpenSearch, Glu Jobs, Athena, Lambda functions, DNS.
• Strong technical skills in systems architecture, security risk management, virtualization, cloud technologies, and IT management.
• Graphana experience - ServiceNow experience as an end-user as this will be the ticketing tool - Database knowledge and expertise – SQL, DynamoDB, PostGre, SubProd data refresh, Data fixes.
• Good expertise in NodeJS, Java, Angular.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future need for visa sponsorship.
Preferred:
• Very good troubleshooting and application support expertise as it requires app monitoring, outage handling, upgrade and maintenance activities including infrastructure level support handling.
• Excellent communication skills – requires interaction with multiple teams, end-users, infrastructure point of contacts and pro-active communication with different teams.
• Good problem-solving skills.
Company:
Cognizant is a professional services company that helps clients alter their business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Founded in 1994, headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA, team size 10001 employees, currently Public Company.