Senior Linux Admin — Cloud IaC, Automation & On-Call Lead

We're hiring at Cognizant, a leading digital sector company. This role allows you to join a dynamic and growing environment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support agile innovative infrastructure solutions / infrastructure management solutions that take advantage of cloud technology to allow cost optimization, standardization.
• Collaborate with the team to build and implement Cloud IaC (Infrastructure as Code) standards.
• Work closely with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements.
• Lead OS, load balancer, and web server-related issues and configuration.
• Lead the repave or patching activity seamlessly with the help of IaC automation.
• Provide on‑call support.
• Take ownership of deliverables and lead the entire team.

Technical Skills

• AWS or GCP Cloud experience (preferably AWS).
• Mail Server or SMTP Relay experience.
• Source Code Control Management like Git.
• Terraform.
• Ansible.
• Jenkins CI/CD.
• Strong Linux administration.
• In‑depth knowledge of Linux: RedHat, CentOS, Debian, etc.
• Kernel tuning.
• Performance tuning.
• Patching.
• SSL certificate management.
• Knowledge of DNS, LDAP, SMTP protocols.
• Expert in Shell and/or Python scripting.
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Elastic.

Benefits

• Career growth and development opportunities.
• Ongoing support and training and development plans.
• Highly competitive benefits and salary package.
• Opportunity to work for leading integral companies.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or for any other reason covered.