Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote
Houston, Harris County, Texas, 77001, USA
Listed on 2026-10-20
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, SRE/Site Reliability
The Senior Dev Sec Ops Engineer builds, secures, automates, and operates the delivery pipelines, infrastructure patterns, monitoring capabilities, and compliance evidence mechanisms required for regulated financial applications deployed in a FedRAMP High government cloud environment. This role embeds security, compliance reliability, and repeatability into the software delivery lifecycle.
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A few of our roles may require in-person interviews at Cognizant offices or client locations, depending on project or client needs.**
- Design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, environment promotion controls, release gates, and rollback patterns.
- Implement and support Azure Government cloud infrastructure, identity integration, network segmentation, secrets management, logging, monitoring, vulnerability scanning, and compliance evidence collection.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, QA, and security teams to embed static analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, configuration validation, and remediation workflows.
- Support FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, continuous monitoring, audit evidence, change management, vulnerability management, incident response, and secure configuration practices.
Location
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Dallas,TX
Work model: Remote
We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the US. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
What you need to have to be considered:- 8+ years of Dev Ops, cloud engineering, site reliability, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation experience in regulated environments
- Azure Government or Azure cloud services, Terraform, Bicep, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, CI/CD, vulnerability management, secure configuration, containerized deployment patterns, observability, incident response support, and control evidence generation for FedRAMP High or comparable compliance frameworks.
Applications will be accepted until 11/01/2026.
The annual salary for this position is between $55K – 114K 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
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