What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer - Remote position at Cognizant?
DevOps Engineer
Roles/Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure
Required Skills & Experience
Cloud: Extensive experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, etc.).
Kubernetes: Strong expertise in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.
CI/CD: Experience with modern CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Jenkins).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expertise in Terraform (writing modules, state management, best practices).
Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Loki, OpenTelemetry.
Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Bash, Python, or Go.
Security & Networking: Understanding of security best practices, IAM, RBAC, and Kubernetes networking.
The annual salary for this position is between $68K – $110K 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.
Benefits
Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
Travel: 0-5%
Why Choose Cognizant?
Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.
If you became comfortable with ambiguity, delight by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. We consider all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law.
About Cognizant
Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a flawless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space.
WWW.COGNIZANT.COM
Roles/Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure
- Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud environments using best practices.
- Optimize cloud resource utilization for cost efficiency and performance.
- Implement security best practices, IAM policies, and compliance standards.
- Deploy, manage, and scale applications on Kubernetes.
- Optimize cluster configurations for performance, security, and cost.
- Work with Helm charts, operators, and service meshes.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or Jenkins.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Implement GitOps principles for deployment automation.
- Develop and maintain Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure.
- Automate provisioning and enforce infrastructure best practices.
- Manage version-controlled infrastructure changes using GitOps.
- Set up and maintain monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch).
- Implement log aggregation, tracing, and observability solutions.
- Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Write and maintain scripts (Bash, Python, Go, or other languages) to automate operational tasks.
- Develop self-healing and auto-scaling mechanisms for cloud workloads.
- Work closely with developers to improve deployment processes.
- Advocate for DevOps culture and best practices within the organization.
- Document infrastructure, processes, and automation scripts.
Required Skills & Experience
Cloud: Extensive experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, etc.).
Kubernetes: Strong expertise in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.
CI/CD: Experience with modern CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Jenkins).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expertise in Terraform (writing modules, state management, best practices).
Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Loki, OpenTelemetry.
Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Bash, Python, or Go.
Security & Networking: Understanding of security best practices, IAM, RBAC, and Kubernetes networking.
The annual salary for this position is between $68K – $110K 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.
Benefits
Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Travel: 0-5%
Why Choose Cognizant?
Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.
If you became comfortable with ambiguity, delight by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. We consider all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law.
About Cognizant
Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a flawless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space.
WWW.COGNIZANT.COM
Salary : $68,000 - $110,000
