Devops Engineer – Cognizant

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world’s leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.

Position Summary:

• 9+ Years of Cloud Engineering experience with AWS with strong knowledge in DevOps, Oracle Database, SQL server and DB2 Administration
• 7+ years of Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using (CI/CD pipeline) Concepts using the toolsets like Artifactory, Jenkins, Enov8 and Version Control tools like GIT, Bitbucket and Source Tree.                               
• Good written, communication, interpersonal skills, and team player with an analytical mind bend to problem solving and delivering solutions is desired

Mandatory Skills:

• Ability to participate and provide guidance during application design using Oracle Database, object Design, Concurrency, Indexing, Views, M-Views User security, Data security, replication(RAC), and backup strategy.
• Experience remediating Security Vulnerabilities in Oracle and Clusters OS servers
• Strong skills in performance tuning of SQL Queries and Data Masking experience (PL/SQL)
• Experience with creating and troubleshooting automated deployment pipelines.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Ansible, Python, Bash/Shell, PHP, Gosu script
• Experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (IAM, ECS/Fargate, EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Redshift)
• Understanding of AGILE software development methodologies and use of standard software development tool suites. (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, PHP, Python, Shell Script, etc.)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• As a senior level information technology programmer/analyst, uses advanced principles and procedures of systems design methodology, structured systems design, and automated data processing techniques for new and existing complex Guidewire applications.
• Extensive experience in working with cloud providers (AWS & Azure) and familiar with Cloud provider services, EC2, ALBs, VPC etc.
• Influence cross functional teams (application, platform, security, data, operations, infrastructure) through transformative changes
• Research, design, test, and evaluate new cloud technologies, platforms, and strategic partner products and services
• Highly experience in using Redhat Openshiftcontainers for deploying Builds and managing the build versions in environments
• Analyze databases for optimal performance and investigate poorly performing SQL statements and offending database sessions. Perform database performance tuning by identifying index candidates, updating database statistics, using appropriate optimization techniques, optimizer hints and other methods. Document tuning procedures.
• Monitor database jobs and scheduled processes, perform troubleshooting and provide resolution for any issues with jobs/processes as necessary.
• Design, develop and implement highly scalable and reliable systems in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Monitor, support, review and fix the build issues during various phase in CI/CD pipeline in Git and AWS cloud Platform
• Disaster Recovery Exercise for both Application level and database level support.
• Debug production issues at every tier of a massive distributed system, across dozens of services.     
• Ability to quickly diagnose the problem areas and come up with solutions and/or workarounds·      
• Collaborating with the development team to automate the software build, deployment, and testing processes
• Leverage cloud native and third-party tools to troubleshoot Guidewire application issue.       
• Provide advanced expertise in all stages of software development, production release, and operations
• Collaborate with developers to enhance CI/CD GitLab pipelines, tests coverage, and stability.
• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews, to include cloud-based architecture and integrations
• Articulate advanced multiple cloud environment infrastructure (Compute, Storage, Network, database Backups and OEM Monitoring)
• Monitor performance, maintain systems and troubleshoot issues and outages
• Extensive knowledge and experience in Guidewire application functionality                                   
• Work closely with the platform architects in building highly available, secure, scalable infrastructure
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to resolve security incidents and vulnerability compliance
• Work with enterprise teams for Systems Administrators, Cyber Security and Capacity Planning groups as and when situation demands
• Ability to perform applications database administration (Oracle) services including SQL code review, performance analysis, query tuning, database application design, physical data modeling, development support & Engineering ·      
• Advanced skills in SQL Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid control (OEM 12c), Linux shell scripting, and writing database monitoring jobs in PL/SQL
• Strong Linux shell scripting, Python experience preferred
• A good understanding of disaster recovery management best practices, particularly when operating in a regulated industry
• Executes effective interpersonal skills, team-work attitude, and drives collaborative initiatives 

Salary Range: >$100,000

Next Steps:
If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit http://www.cognizant.com/careers

Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.

About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.

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Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Job Posting : Mar 24 2023

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.