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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.
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As a GCP Performance Engineer, you will join the Cloud Infrastructure and Security team to monitor, analyze, and optimize application and infrastructure performance across Google Cloud Platform environments. Your daily responsibilities include identifying system bottlenecks, supporting performance testing, and conducting capacity planning to improve scalability and reliability. You will specifically optimize BigQuery queries, tune AlloyDB database performance, and manage Pub/Sub messaging throughput. You will also configure Cloud Monitoring dashboards and observability solutions while collaborating with development teams to optimize Python-based applications and cloud-native workloads. The role requires proficiency in Python, Google Cloud Platform services, and performance optimization techniques. You will solve technical problems related to latency, throughput, and resource utilization to ensure efficient execution and reduced processing costs across distributed cloud applications.
Remote (Santa Clara, CA)+428 days ago
$224,000–$356,500
C++
Python
CUDA
PyTorch
JAX
XLA
GPU Computing
Distributed Systems
Performance Engineering
Profiling
Benchmarking
Operating Systems
Computer Architecture
High-Performance Computing
Data Analysis
Observability