AWS Sr. Cloud Engineer

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Monitor infrastructure health, availability, and performance.
• Respond to alerts and service disruptions.
• Coordinate with application & infrastructure teams during major incidents.
• Support environment provisioning and configuration management.
• Monitor AWS consumption and utilization.
• Identify rightsizing, storage optimization, and cost-saving opportunities.
• Manage IAM roles, policies, security groups, and network controls.
• Ensure adherence to security standards and organizational policies.
• Support audit and compliance requirements.
• Perform AWS Redshift administration activities like: user management, performance tuning, capacity monitoring, backup validation, security administration.
• Support production and non‑production environments.
• Manage AWS infrastructure supporting the Data Warehouse platform like: AWS Redshift environments, AWS S3, security components.

Requirements

• AWS Infra Admin (EC2 VM’s, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, Backup & Restroe)
• AWS Data Services management like AWS RedShift Administration Infra level
• AWS Glue
• AWS Data Services
• S3
• AWS CDK
• Legally authorized to work in the US without requiring employer sponsorship (now or in the future)

Pay

Compensation: We are offering between $115,000 – $129,000.