Hybrid opportunity, 4 times from client office in Toronto Cognizant is looking for a dynamic Senior Disaster Recovery Resiliency Engineer to support critical business processes by ensuring technology is prepared to recover from the unexpected. You will be responsible for assessing disaster readiness and overall application resiliency based on critical risks.

About Cognizant’s CIS Practice Cognizant’s CIS (Cognizant Infrastructure Services) Practice is a global leader in providing IT infrastructure services. We deliver innovative solutions to optimize and transform IT infrastructure, ensuring business agility and operational efficiency. Our services include cloud computing, data center management, network services, and cybersecurity. We focus on understanding client needs and delivering customized solutions to drive business success.

In This Role, You Will

• Assess critical business processes from an end-to-end viewpoint in order to identify Resiliency risks and recommend technology and process changes.
• Align DR Guidelines with Global Risk Standards and participate in Change Management to ensure compliance.
• Partner with the Infrastructure Architecture and Platform teams to continually update design patterns to ensure the use of the latest technological advancements.
• Participate with the Disaster Recovery team on exercises and contribute recommendations on continuous improvement.
• Partner with the ITSM team to monitor Incident and Problem tickets and participate in root cause analysis to specify Resiliency or DR factors.
• Research and remain current on multiple technology platforms.

What You’ll Need To Succeed (required Skills)

• System admin having at least 10 years of experience in Linux / Windows.
• Has strong hands-on experience configuring clusters , failover clusters , load balancing traffic between failovers , traffic switch between clusters.
• Good experience with Disaster Recovery including design, exercise planning and execution.
• Hands on experience on configuring storage with good understanding of IT infrastructure including virtualization, databases, SAN and NAS storage, messaging, networking and Cloud.
• Scripting and automation using Ansible or similar tools.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Compensation : We are offering an annual compensation between $94,000-105,000 based on candidate's years of experience.

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*

At Cognizant, we're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can make an impact in various ways! We strongly encourage you to apply even if you only meet the required skills listed. Consider what transferrable experience and skills make you an outstanding applicant and help us see how you'd be helpful to this role.

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.

At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position, 4 times a week from the office based out of the client’s location in Toronto, Ontario. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.