Sr. Chaos Engineer

Description

Cognizant's Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Sr. Chaos Engineer with experience developing and building high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. You will be part of a digital software team that works on high-demand applications. Our engineers have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we're doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we're doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Cognizant Digital Engineering If you're like us, you've got big ideas. At Cognizant, we're exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value-by connecting people with things, insights and experiences. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

Location: Bentonville, AR or Sunnyvale, CA

Note: Remote/ Hybrid for 3 days a week in office.

You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain chaos engineering tools using Golang, GraphQL, and Elasticsearch to inject faults and simulate failure scenarios in our systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify potential weaknesses in our infrastructure and applications and develop mitigation strategies to prevent outages and performance degradation.
• Develop and implement chaos experiments to validate the effectiveness of our systems under various failure conditions.
• Work closely with the engineering, operations, and QA teams to ensure that our chaos engineering practices are aligned with the overall objectives of our organization.
• Analyze system performance and incident data to continuously improve the reliability and resilience of our systems
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide support for production incidents and ensure the smooth operation of our services
• Stay current on industry trends and advancements in chaos engineering, and continuously explore opportunities to enhance our tools and processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of experience in chaos engineering, reliability engineering, or a similar role
• Strong proficiency in Golang and experience building chaos tools using Golang, GraphQL, and Elasticsearch
• In-depth understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and containerization technologies (such as Docker and Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of best practices in software development, testing, and deployment, including CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic Stack)
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and develop effective solutions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment

Travel: 0-5%

Why Choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today's fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry-recognized, award-winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skillsets fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion-for our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. It's the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

If you love ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you!

About Cognizant Digital Engineering

Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economy-and we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design.

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Qualifications

Technical Skills

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Primary Skill

Proficiency Level *

Rqrd./Dsrd.

1

Performance Analyzer

PL3

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* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level

Generic Reference

PL1

The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.

PL2

The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.

PL3

The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.

PL4

The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.