AI Site Reliability Engineer
Cognizant
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This role pays less than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $144,375–$215,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $155k versus about $180k for comparable roles.
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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.
Cognizant currently has 330 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$135,000 across 211 roles with salary data.
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The AI Site Reliability Engineer joins the team to build and operate reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure for AI and machine-learning platforms. You will design and improve highly available infrastructure for training, inference, and data-processing workloads while managing service-level objectives, capacity plans, and incident response. Daily tasks include building monitoring, logging, and AI-specific observability for model-serving platforms and automating deployment, scaling, and disaster recovery. You will utilize Kubernetes, GPU compute, cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform. Technical proficiency in Python or Go is required alongside experience with Linux, networking, and distributed systems. You will solve technical problems regarding model-serving performance, latency, GPU utilization, and cost efficiency while establishing operational standards for model versioning and canary releases.
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