AWS Sr. Cloud Engineer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Compensation: We are offering between $115,000 – $127,000. · Full-time
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- Compensation: We are offering between $115,000 – $127,000.
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About The Group
Cognizant’s Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about accepting digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the constantly evolving needs of the digital era. Our broad approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to own the business in a secure environment.
Role: AWS Sr. Cloud Engineer
Location Toronto, ON
Mandatory skills: AWS Core Services (CloudWatch, VPC, Subnets,ALB, R53, VPC Endpoints, and PrivateLink, AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets,
Medium: AWS RedShift, Amazon Aurora, AWS CDK with Typescript
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Cognizant’s Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about accepting digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the constantly evolving needs of the digital era. Our broad approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to own the business in a secure environment.
Role: AWS Sr. Cloud Engineer
Location Toronto, ON
Mandatory skills: AWS Core Services (CloudWatch, VPC, Subnets,ALB, R53, VPC Endpoints, and PrivateLink, AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets,
Medium: AWS RedShift, Amazon Aurora, AWS CDK with Typescript
- Build and operate container infrastructure using Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, ECS Services, Task Definitions, Fargate Spot, and Application Auto Scaling for reporting workloads.
- Provision and manage Dev, SIT, UAT, and Production infrastructure using AWS CDK with Typescript, ensuring repeatable and standardized AWS deployments.
- Configure AWS networking using Amazon VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, Security Groups, ALB, Route 53, VPC Endpoints, and PrivateLink in line with approved enterprise patterns.
- Implement ECS/Fargate auto scaling, including scheduled scaling, queue-backlog-based scaling where applicable, capacity thresholds, scale-in protection, and workload-specific scaling policies.
- Implement infrastructure observability using Amazon CloudWatch, Container Insights, CloudWatch Logs, Logs Insights, Alarms, Dashboards, and Anomaly Detection for latency, utilization, queue depth, and container health.
- Implement AWS infrastructure security using IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Groups, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch Logs, following least-privilege, encryption, and audit requirements.
- Provision and manage infrastructure configurations for Amazon Aurora/Aurora Serverless and Amazon Redshift/Redshift Serverless, including capacity limits, connectivity, security, availability, scaling, and monitoring.
- Perform capacity and cost optimization using AWS Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, Container Insights, and Fargate Spot.
- Engineer and support AWS infrastructure for high availability, resiliency, chaos testing, production parallel run, cutover, rollback, and hypercare, including infrastructure troubleshooting and recovery.
- Perform infrastructure monitoring, troubleshooting, demand analysis, and capacity planning using CloudWatch, CloudWatch Logs Insights, Container Insights, CloudTrail, Athena, Compute Optimizer, and Cost Explorer.
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
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Responsibilities
Build, provision, and operate secure AWS infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments, including ECS/Fargate workloads, networking, databases, and observability. Optimize capacity and costs, and support high availability, resiliency testing, production cutovers, rollback, and infrastructure recovery.
Requirements
The role requires hands-on experience with AWS core services, AWS CDK using TypeScript, ECS/Fargate, networking, monitoring, security, and Aurora or Redshift infrastructure. It also calls for expertise in autoscaling, cost and capacity optimization, high availability, troubleshooting, and production support.
Skills
- AWS Core Services
- AWS CDK
- TypeScript
- Amazon ECS
- AWS Fargate
- Amazon VPC
- AWS Networking
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Infrastructure Observability
- AWS IAM
- AWS KMS
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon Redshift
- Cost Optimization
- Infrastructure Troubleshooting
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Categories
- Technology
- Engineering
- Software
- Consulting
Keywords
- AWS
- CloudWatch
- Amazon VPC
- Subnets
- Application Load Balancer
- Route 53
- VPC Endpoints
- AWS PrivateLink
- AWS Compute Optimizer
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Budgets
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Aurora
- AWS CDK
- TypeScript
- Amazon ECS
- AWS Fargate
- Fargate Spot
- Application Auto Scaling
- CloudWatch Container Insights
- CloudWatch Logs Insights
- IAM
- AWS KMS
- AWS Secrets Manager
- AWS CloudTrail
- Cost Anomaly Detection
- Amazon Athena
- High Availability
- Chaos Testing
- Capacity Planning