Lead systems engineering for IT/OT in manufacturing environments, owning end-to-end troubleshooting, coordinating infrastructure upgrades, and ensuring compliance with regulated standards.
Compensation
$100,000 to $130,000 + COLA and 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.
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end troubleshooting for IT/OT issues impacting lab and manufacturing operations
Operate within a shared-services and limited-privilege model, escalating to correct resolver group
Define technical requirements for lab and OT connectivity and coordinate implementation
Troubleshoot authentication and authorization issues in Windows environments
Diagnose issues across virtualization platforms, network, storage, and application layers
Lead a Business Analysis Center of Excellence for a financial services client, driving AI adoption and governance while advising senior leadership and managing a team of analysts.
Compensation
The base salary for this position ranges between $160,000 – 185,000 per year. This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual performance-based bonus
Responsibilities
Serve as senior advisor to client leadership on CoE strategy and outcomes
Define and maintain CoE charter, governance model, KPIs, and Responsible AI standards
Own AI adoption roadmap and change strategy
Manage quality assurance, risks, and escalations
Lead ownership transition plan
Requirements
Relevant certifications such as CBAP, PMP, or similar
Design, deploy, and support virtualization and container platforms. Manage Hyper-V/Openshift environments, automate operations, and help migrate workloads to modern container platforms.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain Openshift/Hyper-V clusters, including live migration, replication, and capacity planning
Automate provisioning and configuration with Ansible, Terraform, and PowerShell
Build CI/CD and GitOps pipelines (Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD)
Monitor platform health and troubleshoot performance, networking, and storage issues
Apply security and access controls (RBAC, SCC, patching)
Requirements
Nice to have: Java
Nice to have: Spring Boot
Nice to have: Go
Nice to have: Red Hat certifications (EX280, EX180)
Administer Progress OpenEdge databases across development, test, and production environments, ensuring availability, performance, data integrity, and recoverability.
Compensation
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.
Responsibilities
Administer Progress OpenEdge databases across development, test, and production environments, including installation, configuration, maintenance, startup/shutdown parameters, and broker configurations.
Monitor database health and availability using promon and related diagnostic tools, responding to incidents involving performance, connectivity, or production availability.
Design and execute backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies using probkup, prorest, After-Image areas, and documented recovery procedures.
Tune and optimize database performance, including buffer pools, lock tables, I/O, index rebuilds/compaction, fragmentation reduction, blocking, deadlocks, and slow-running queries.
Manage database structures and schema support activities, including storage areas, extents, .st files, dump/load operations, triggers, data model changes, and collaboration with development teams.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent experience.
Design and govern enterprise semantic architectures, ontologies, and knowledge graph platforms to enable AI-ready knowledge systems.
Compensation
The annual salary for this position is between $ 130,000 - $ 160,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. 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.
Responsibilities
Design and govern enterprise ontologies, semantic models, and knowledge graph architectures
Lead development of business domain models and governed vocabularies
Define and maintain enterprise business glossaries, KPI registries, and governance processes
Architect graph-based knowledge platforms using technologies such as Spanner Graph, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, TigerGraph, GraphDB, Dataplex, BigQuery, and Vector Search
Partner with engineering, AI, and platform teams to establish governance controls, security standards, and AI architecture guardrails
Requirements
Nice to have: Spanner Graph GQL
Nice to have: knowledge architecture for agentic AI
IT/OT Lead Systems Engineer - OnsiteNewCognizant · Cincinnati, US