About Us: Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, redefining clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our outstanding industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com. Cognizant Technology Solutions is looking for “Sr. Manager” to join the team of IT professionals in a permanent role. If you meet our background requirements and skills and are looking for an opportunity with these skills and expertise, here is the ideal opportunity for you! Education Details: BS or Equivalent Job Location: Charlotte or Atlanta Responsibilities: • Leads and/or participates in the design, development, and implementation of complex system engineering activities involving cross-functional technical support, systems programming and data center capabilities. Responsible for components of highly complex engineering and/or analytical tasks and activities.• Establishes input/output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility, coordination of subsystems design, and integration of total system. Viewed as a technology subject matter expert; able to provide and communicate complex technology solutions across differing audiences including technical, managerial, business executives, and/or vendors. Will have responsibility for multiple, complex projects.• Responsible for the application infrastructure architecture must have high availability, Load balance, resiliency, scalability of web infrastructure to meet corporate LOB objectives• Identifying technical requirements for new projects like Hardware requirements, server’s operating system, Authentication and Authorization security, IIS configurations, Firewall connectivity, Load Balancer settings, DNS registrations, security severity, application dependencies, databases, scheduled jobs, and content replication• Addressing production issues and troubleshooting applications incidents of any Priority1 / Priority2 and Priority3 incidents• Managing team, assign / review the project’s design, requirements, workflow, and documents with the team and working closely with multiple teams for implementation• Creating design documents, technical documents, deployment documents and share with deployment and production support teams• Identifying risk associated with LOB applications and escalation to senior management and providing solutions to mitigate risks. Qualification: • 3 - 5 years of experience in design and engineering solutions for large business capabilities – Expertise in Payment and Merchant Services capabilities are A+• Expert experience and knowledge in design and engineering of applications hosted at external cloud such as Azure and AWS – not a must have but this requirement is priority• Effective Communication – Clear, Concise and the ability to articulate ideas• Should be able to lead and actively participate in conference calls with technical and business users• Flexible to work in different shifts, including rotational night shift and weekend support• Experience in Application Lifecycle Management Automation tools and integration using one or more of the following tools: Ansible by Red Hat, Jenkins or XLR • Working knowledge/expertise with JIRA, NEXUS and ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) • Exposure and familiarity with software development lifecycle methodologies (Agile)• Candidate must be self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, able to work with little supervision and a responsible team-player • Willing and able to work in a 24 X 7 environment including after hours and weekend support to support multiple time zones • Computer networking skills and working knowledge: Load balancers, firewall, etc.• Degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Communication, Information Technology or equivalent education• Understanding/experience with web application communication protocols - SOAP, HTTP, XML etc • Working knowledge of application setup, support, and configuration. 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.Benefits:Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:Medical/Dental/Vision/Life InsurancePaid holidays plus Paid Time Off401(k) plan and contributionsLong-term/Short-term DisabilityPaid Parental LeaveEmployee Stock Purchase PlanDisclaimer: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