SRE Architect

Job Title:SRE Architect

Client: Cognizant
Location: Seattle, WA

Job Description

• Experience defining and implementing SLI, SLO, SLA, Error Budget, and Reliability Governance frameworks.
• Expertise in Dynatrace and other enterprise observability platforms, including APM, Distributed Tracing, RUM, Synthetic Monitoring, and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience designing High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Resilience, and Business Continuity solutions.
• Proven track record in Incident Management, Problem Management, RCA, and Continuous Service Improvement.
• Experience driving toil reduction, self-healing, auto-remediation, and operational automation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Capacity Planning, Performance Engineering, and Chaos Engineering practices.
• Experience establishing enterprise observability strategy, standards, governance, and monitoring frameworks.
• Familiarity with AIOps, predictive analytics, event correlation, and intelligent alert management.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Ability to lead production readiness reviews, operational readiness reviews, and reliability assessments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering, architecture, and business leadership teams.
• Experience leading SRE transformation and reliability engineering adoption across large-scale enterprise environments.
• Relevant certifications in Azure, Kubernetes, Dynatrace, SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Architecture are preferred.