AWS Infrastructure & Cloud Resilience Engineer

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.

• Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

Role: AWS Infrastructure & Cloud Resilience Engineer

Location: Remote

Summary

This role develops resilience testing scenarios and runbooks, runs game days, and validates failover across AZ and region failure scenarios for target applications.

Mandatory skill: CDK (medium), AWS FIS(AWS Resilience Hub),Chaos Engineering, Gremlin (Expert), DR Testing (Multi Region) (medium)

Role Scope

• Deploy and integrate AWS Resilience Hub and Fault Injection Service (FIS) within the customer environment and bundle into CFT/RefStack.
• Lead Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) and resiliency game days; remediate issues identified during testing.
• Validate multi-region resiliency patterns — active-active (3-region), warm standby, pilot light — across AZ and region failure scenarios.
• Develop resilience testing scenarios and runbooks for customer application archetypes and produce resilience posture assessments.
• Guide application teams as an SME on CDK TypeScript constructs for resilience configuration; support end-user adoption.

Core Skills

• Resiliency testing (Level 300) — AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) and Resilience Hub; leading FMEA and resiliency game days; failover/recovery validation.
• Multi-region resilience patterns (Level 300) — Active-active (3-region), warm standby, and pilot light patterns across AZ/region failures.
• Infrastructure as code (Level 300) — CDK TypeScript constructs for resilience and observability configuration.
• Observability (Level 200) — CloudWatch, AppSignals, ADOT/X-Ray to measure resilience test outcomes.
• SRE practices (Level 200) — Incident response, change management, and continuous DR testing embedded in SRE ways of working.

General Requirements

• AWS Professional certification preferred (e.g. Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer – Professional, or Security – Specialty as relevant to the role).
• Prior delivery experience in a large, regulated enterprise environment (financial services strongly preferred); comfortable operating under change-control and audit scrutiny.
• Able to produce clear written documentation (architecture decision records, runbooks, design docs) suitable for client Tech Risk review.
• Strong stakeholder communication; can work directly with client engineering, security, and SRE teams as an embedded SME.
• Works to the stated engagement location / time-zone overlap and follows AWS ProServe and Customer onboarding, security, and vetting requirements

Compensation: We are offering between $90,000 – $115,000. Applications will be accepted until Aug 21, 2026.Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

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.

*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*