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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. You will support performance testing initiatives, identify system bottlenecks, and work with development and operations teams to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency. Your daily responsibilities include analyzing latency, throughput, and resource utilization while optimizing BigQuery queries and AlloyDB database performance. You will configure Cloud Monitoring dashboards, investigate CPU, memory, and network bottlenecks, and optimize Python-based applications and Pub/Sub messaging. Required skills include hands-on experience with GCP services, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Pub/Sub, along with proficiency in Python, performance testing methodologies, capacity planning, and observability tools to solve complex distributed cloud application performance problems.