IMS Hosting Lead

Cognizant

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Work type
On-site
Location
Wayzata, MNAtlanta, GA
Salary
$110,000–$136,000 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays less than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$197,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $123k versus about $171k for comparable roles.

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About Cognizant

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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TL;DR · IMS Hosting Lead

The IMS Hosting Lead - Infrastructure & Service Delivery leads onshore hosting operations and coordinates service delivery across global and regional teams. The role involves managing Windows Server, SQL, and Oracle platforms to maintain high availability, performance, and operational stability. Key responsibilities include overseeing incidents, changes, problems, risks, and operational escalations while ensuring SLA commitments and governance requirements are met. The successful candidate will drive priority management, resource planning, and workload allocation while promoting automation, standardization, and lifecycle management. Required skills include data center architecture, enterprise architecture, hosting operations management, and IT service management. This position focuses on designing and governing scalable, resilient infrastructure to support business-critical hosting services and improving operational efficiency through infrastructure automation and continuous service reliability improvements.

What you'll do

  • Lead onshore hosting operations and coordinate service delivery across global and regional teams.
  • Manage Windows Server, SQL, Oracle, and related hosting platforms for high availability and performance.
  • Oversee incidents, changes, problems, risks, and operational escalations to meet SLA commitments.
  • Drive priority management, resource planning, workload allocation, and team accountability.
  • Promote automation, standardization, lifecycle management, and service reliability improvements.
  • Provide stakeholders with regular updates on service health, risks, and improvement initiatives.
  • Design and govern scalable, resilient, and high-availability data center infrastructure.
  • Define infrastructure standards and technology roadmaps aligned with business objectives.

What we're looking for

  • 19+ years of experience.
  • Ability to design, optimize, and govern scalable, resilient, and high-availability data center infrastructure.
  • Ability to define infrastructure standards, technology roadmaps, and architectural frameworks.
  • Expertise in managing Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, and enterprise hosting platforms.
  • Ability to manage incidents, problems, changes, risks, SLAs, and service governance processes.
  • Ability to drive automation, standardization, lifecycle management, and service optimization initiatives.

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