Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

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:

Cognizant Australia is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our growing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled professional with a strong engineering background to solve complex cloud infrastructure challenges for our diverse client base. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure platform reliability, improve automation, and provide infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-grade services. This role is ideal for an individual with a firm foundation in infrastructure engineering, focusing on building scalable, secure, and observable platforms.

You will be working on exciting and interesting projects, providing Advisory and Consulting services covering a range of domains, including:

• Cloud infrastructure strategy and optimization
• Security architecture and risk management
• Cloud governance
• Platform engineering and SRE practices
• DevOps and CI/CD transformation
• Microservices and container orchestration
• IT Service Management integration

Mandatory Skills:

Delivering enterprise-grade architecture requires a vast amount of experience. We are seeking individuals with strong engineering backgrounds and practical knowledge, including but not limited to:

• Ability to provide detailed technical documentation, status updates, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to partner with development and operations teams to troubleshoot issues, optimize system performance, and implement best practices across the SDLC.
• Experience with application development.
• Proficient in developing internal applications, scripts, and automation solutions using Python, Bash, and other relevant methods.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining business-critical cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS, using Terraform, Terragrunt and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Experience managing and optimizing Kubernetes clusters and leveraging associated tooling (Helm, Kustomize, etc.).
• Experience developing and maintaining efficient CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience implementing and managing event streaming platforms, associated tools and connectors (Confluent, MSK, and Apache Kafka).
• Experience with platform observability through Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, and custom monitoring/alerting solutions.
• Experience with SLA, SLO, and SLI service reliability framework.
• Experience designing and supporting SIEM solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead assessment activities across a range of organizations and verticals to provide insight on status and pathways to improvements.
• Lead security assessments of the environment and application architecture to identify and articulate the security risk profile.
• Deliver cloud assessment reviews to enable clients to understand their alignment with best practice, with recommendations on improvements.
• Lead workshops and discussions to determine a solution that delivers the client's expected outcomes.
• Lead infrastructure modernization and cloud adoption initiatives across environments.
• Ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of platform components.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters across environments.
• Operate and scale distributed systems such as Confluent Kafka, ensuring data reliability and performance for real-time services.
• Work across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Deliver training workshops and labs to our staff and clients.
• Provide Pre-Sales Support and solution architecture for tendered offerings.
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for infrastructure, runbooks, architecture decisions, and SOPs.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and practices, evaluating their potential impact and adoption.

Qualifications & Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional
• CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Certified SCRUM Master

Salary Range:

$100,000

What We Offer:

• The chance to work with impact. Here, you're empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
• Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
• The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other's experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and pension plan with matching contributions.
• Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents — from day one.
• True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.

About Us:

Cognizant 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 (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World's Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

Other employment-related information:

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email CareersNA2@cognizant.com with your request and contact information.

Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you'll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.