Ansible Automation Developer

Cognizant is seeking an Ansible Automation Developer for a remote opportunity in the US. Applicants must be physically located in the US and must have valid US work authorization. The salary range for this role is between $ 91,000 and $107,000 depending on experience and qualifications of the candidate.

Applications will be accepted till 2/20/2026.

Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities:

* Develop, test, and maintain automation scripts and Ansible playbooks for automating tasks related to Disaster Recovery testing of critical applications both on-prem and cloud-based.

* Design and implement automation workflows using Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), including Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) for real-time, alert-based automation.

* Automate repetitive tasks and workflows to increase operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

* Build and support Event-Driven Ansible playbooks to respond to monitoring events, alerts, and operational triggers in support of eNOC automation use cases.

* Integrate automation solutions with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools and other enterprise platforms.

Qualifications:

* Demonstrated experience in Powershell scripting for automation purposes.

* Proficiency in designing and implementing Rest API solutions.

* Hands-on experience with Automation Edge for workflow automation.

Strong knowledge of Ansible for configuration management and deployment