Senior DevOps Engineer with AWS

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Please note:

A few of our roles may require in-person interviews at Cognizant offices or client locations, depending on project or client needs.

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.

• 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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Sec Ops  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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops and
• Dev Sec Ops  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

Hybrid

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.

• 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 Dev Ops tools covering source control build automation artifact management configuration management and continuous delivery pipelines in enterprise settings
• Show proven background implementing Dev Sec Ops  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…