Job Description

Openstack / Openshift Engineer What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world. At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful. And this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for Site Support Engineer to join our Infrastructure Services Team.  About Cognizant Infrastructure Services Today’s customers want seamless, intuitive and personalized experiences while they’re using products and services. The digital era is forcing companies like yours to transform through technology to stay relevant. Your business must be always-on and your infrastructure must predict change before it happens, to act fast and put a smile on the faces of users. Cognizant is helping you prepare for the digital era, with infrastructure services that are transforming the face of enterprises. We can help your business maximize the potential of automation and a software defined data center (SDDC), by delivering services through a business-aligned Catalog model. More information? Please visit https://www.cognizant.com/cognizant-digital-systems-technology/infrastructure-services About Role: OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. We are looking for passionate for virtualization technology and open cloud standards with strong expertise in RedHat Openstack Cloud Management Platform (VIM controller). Roles / Responsibilities: - Strong Knowledge in Telco Cloud, Virtualization, Cloud Computing - Good understanding of deployment & configuration for Red Hat Open Stack using Triple O Architecture. - Openstack cloud setup, configuration, administration, Operate & maintenance - Hands on operations background and be able to troubleshoot OpenStack issues to achieve root cause analysis - Excellent troubleshooting skills with a strong can-do attitude - In-depth understanding in Openstack Core Concepts - Undercloud, Overcloud, Neutron, Nova, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, Swift, Ironic, VIM controller, Ceph storage, Backup & restore. - Good experience on Data Center staging activities such as Patch & release management - Able to learn new technologies : VMware cloud management and VMware cloud operations products & technologies - Telco Cloud Platform (TCP), vSphere, ESXi, vSAN, NSX, and vRealize Operations, vCloud Director. - Strong exposure to understanding of telco networks (VLAN/ VXLAN/ Underlay/ Overlay) - Good hands-on experience on Monitoring tools ZenOSS, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK.   Domain Expertise - Good understanding of NFV MANO architecture - Good to have end to end understanding of the Evolved Packet Core and IMS Solutions. - Good to have Cloud environment and understanding of how vEPC and vIMS solutions can be deployed over cloud. - Good to have expertise of VNF on-boarding, integration of the v-EPC/v-IMS on the Openstack Cloud environment. - Good to have knowledge of 4G and 5G call flows, and overall knowledge of the newest technologies in the Telecom space including VOLTE, VoWiFi, IoT, etc. - Should be aware of the 5G RAN / Core (5GC) Architecture OpenShift & Automation Expertise: - Good understanding of Docker/ Containers/Kubernetes - Successful track record of providing production support for large-scale distributed systems, with experience in CRI-O/Docker, and Openshift/Kubernetes - Strong hands-on experience in provisioning, installing, customizing, monitoring, and maintaining an OpenShift cluster for customer environment. - Required hands on experience with both private and public cloud infrastructure and interfacing programmatically through APIs. - Hands on experience on continuous integration and build tools like ArgoCD/Jenkins along with version control system like Git and ticketing system like Jira - Experience with working in an Agile Scrum team - Automates the infrastructure provisioning for the components on the new cloud native platform. - Automates the continuous integration and continuous delivery of all the components that are newly developed. - Hands on programming skills on developing automation modules on Python/Bash - Hands on experience in Ansible for orchestration, configuration management and operations automation are required. - Hands on experience in Terraform including setup of terraform environment, developing TF scripts, provisioning a cloud infra using TF scripts, importing existing environments is required - Strong knowledge of Ansible roles and playbooks - Strong knowledge of Infrastructure automation using Terraform (IaC) is mandatory. - Good knowledge in NFV infra-automation using Ansible playbooks, Python scripts or Shell scripts, CI/CD pipeline tool such as Jenkins or Tekton Your Team Today’s customers want seamless, intuitive and personalized experiences while they’re using products and services. The digital era is forcing companies like yours to transform through technology to stay relevant. Your business must be always-on and your infrastructure must predict change before it happens, to act fast and put a smile on the faces of users. Cognizant is helping you prepare for the digital era, with infrastructure services that are transforming the face of enterprises. We can help your business maximize the potential of automation and a software defined data center (SDDC), by delivering services through a business-aligned Catalog model. More information? Please visit https://www.cognizant.com/cognizant-digital-systems-technology/infrastructure-services   What we offer: - A competitive salary based on your qualities and experience. - Access to Udemy, Cognizant Academy digital libraries for your continuous learning. - NS business card to cover your commute expenses. - 25 days of paid holiday per year. - A laptop and a smartphone. - A pension scheme. - Health insurance - Organization driven by technology – we have a tremendous technology backbone. - Open, ‘can do’ team spirit and international environment that encourages making your ideas reality! At Cognizant, we believe diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our ability to execute successfully and consistently over the long term. We recognize that our people are our most important asset. We strive to create an environment where all associates feel comfortable to be themselves, feel accepted and can therefore thrive both personally and professionally. We continue to drive D&I throughout our organization to unlock the insights, imagination and innovation of our associates, as well as reflect the diversity of our clients and communities. We are a Dutch and European Top Employer and continually drive employment recognition and engagement through employee friendly policies and affinity groups such as “Women Empowered”, “Embrace LGBTQ+” and “Race Equality Network”. For more information, see https://careers.cognizant.com/global/en/diversity-and-inclusion Recruiter Contact Details Please contact Megha Nagpal (Recruiter Cognizant Consulting) at Megha.nagpal3@cognizant.com or on +31-627155643  for an elaborate explanation of the role.