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DevOps Lead Engineer

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Cognizant is a world leader in delivering digital transformation solutions to Life Sciences. Through our knowledge and expertise in Automation, MES & Digital, we deliver stable manufacturing systems that are optimized to improve operational efficiencies, whilst maintaining compliance.

Our specialist engineering teams have the aptitude to deliver and support Pharma 4.0 architectures and solutions covering all IT, OT and IoT applications, infrastructures and services.

Operating across 5 continents and with over 300.000 skilled employees, Cognizant partners with the leading Life Sciences companies globally to provide performance improvements, reduced costs and improve time to market. We are your single end to end partner for consultancy, design implementation, optimization and support for all applications in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Manufacturing stack.

Cognizant is seeking a DevOps Lead Engineer to join a greenfield MES rollout at a biotech manufacturing site in Limerick, Ireland.

We're looking for someone with a strong track record as a Lead or Senior DevOps Engineer, comfortable pushing configuration changes through dev, test, and live production environments, with solid grounding in version control for MES configuration, CI/CD pipeline design, and automated testing support.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build, implement, and refine CI/CD pipelines for consistent, dependable deployments across dev, test, and production
  • Take ownership of the DevOps toolchain and environment lifecycle: source control, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, release management, monitoring, and observability
  • Provision and manage secure, resilient, scalable infrastructure underpinning MES platforms, keeping availability and performance high
  • Manage MES platforms (Emerson Syncade experience preferred) — deployments, configuration, patching, upgrades, and day-to-day operational support
  • Set and enforce development standards, branching strategy, code review practice, release governance, and change control suited to a regulated manufacturing setting
  • Work alongside software engineering, QA, MES vendors, system integrators, and business stakeholders to deliver automated deployments and infrastructure-as-code
  • Build automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines with QA, pushing shift-left testing and stronger release quality
  • Stand up monitoring, logging, and alerting to stay ahead of platform health and performance issues
  • Underpin CSV, audit readiness, disaster recovery, and business continuity with compliant documentation and deployment records
  • Drive ongoing improvement across the delivery lifecycle, clearing deployment bottlenecks and tracking progress via metrics
  • Serve as technical authority and escalation point for complex infrastructure, deployment, and operational issues

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience as a DevOps Lead or Senior DevOps Engineer on complex enterprise programme
  • Hands-on development background with a strong grasp of the SDLC and modern DevOps practice
  • Solid CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and scripting skills
  • Experience managing enterprise application environments — release management, configuration management, infrastructure provisioning
  • Strong background supporting MES platforms, ideally Emerson Syncade, across deployment, configuration, upgrades, and operational support
  • Experience in regulated pharma/life sciences environments preferred, with working knowledge of GxP, CSV, and GAMP 5
  • Familiarity with MES integrations into SAP, LIMS, and historian systems, plus containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills


About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

Things to know before you apply

  • Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
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  • Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
  • Language proficiency: We ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
  • Inclusion: Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

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