Senior DevOps Engineer with AWS
Important Disclaimers:
**Please note: A few of our roles may require in-person interviews at Cognizant offices or client locations, depending on project or client needs.**
**Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future**
In this role, you will:
- Design and implement robust cloud native architectures on AWS that enhance availability resilience and scalability for complex enterprise applications in alignment with site reliability engineering principles
- Define and standardize SRE practices including error budgets service level objectives and operational readiness criteria to ensure measurable reliability improvements across critical services
- Develop and maintain automated delivery pipelines using modern DevOps tooling to streamline software integration testing and deployment while reducing manual effort and deployment risk
- Create and optimize infrastructure as code solutions using AWS native capabilities and industry standard tools to ensure repeatable auditable and secure environment provisioning
- Establish observability strategies by defining logging metrics tracing and alerting patterns that enable proactive detection of issues and faster mean time to recovery
- Collaborate with platform and application teams to design runbooks playbooks and operational workflows that simplify incident response and reduce operational toil for reliability engineers
- Architect secure DevSecOps practices by integrating security scanning policy checks and compliance automation into continuous integration and delivery workflows for all AWS hosted workloads
- Partner with security and risk stakeholders to interpret compliance requirements and translate them into practical guardrails controls and patterns embedded into cloud platform designs
- Guide teams in adopting cost efficient AWS architectures by analyzing usage patterns recommending right sized solutions and promoting automation that optimizes infrastructure spend
- Coordinate with product and engineering teams to evaluate new services in AWS and emerging DevOps tools to determine their fit for platform roadmap and long term reliability goals
- Drive root cause analysis for high impact incidents by facilitating technical discussions documenting findings and defining corrective actions that prevent recurrence across similar services
- Prepare technical reference architectures patterns and best practice documentation that enable consistent adoption of SRE DevOps and
- DevSecOps capabilities across multiple programs
- Mentor engineering teams in reliability mindset automation first culture and secure development practices to ensure sustainable ownership of platforms and services
Work model: Hybrid
Location: Charlotte - NC
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Charlotte, NC. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.
What you need to have to be considered:
- Possess extensive hands on experience designing and operating solutions on AWS platform including core compute networking storage and managed services for large scale environments
- Demonstrate deep practical expertise in SRE concepts such as service level objectives error budgets reliability risk assessment and production readiness reviews for critical systems
- Exhibit strong experience with modern DevOps tools covering source control build automation artifact management configuration management and continuous delivery pipelines in enterprise settings
- Show proven background implementing DevSecOps practices including code analysis dependency scanning container security and policy enforcement integrated into build and release workflows
- Apply solid understanding of infrastructure as code tooling and automation patterns to create reusable secure and modular components that support multi environment deployment strategies
- Display proficiency in monitoring logging and observability ecosystems that provide actionable insights for performance tuning capacity planning and incident response in distributed systems
- Demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate effectively with engineering security operations and business partners in a hybrid work model focused on shared outcomes
-- We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
Salary and Other Compensation:
Applications will be accepted until 8/30/2026.
The annual salary for this position is between $64K – $117K 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
Disclaimer: 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.
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