Azure DevOps Engineer: Cloud Automation & IaC (Hybrid)

Cognizant; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant in Washington, DC is seeking an Azure DevOps engineer to design automation-first solutions that streamline delivery and improve platform reliability across hybrid environments. The role emphasizes Terraform and YAML for IaC, collaboration with security and application teams, and governance to reduce costs while maintaining service quality.

This position targets candidates with investment banking operations familiarity.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps pipelines and Terraform.
• Knowledge of unit, integration, regression, and security testing in the software delivery lifecycle.
• 5+ years delivering with Azure DevOps pipelines and release management.

Responsibilities

• Configure and optimize Azure DevOps pipelines to automate build, test, and release workflows across hybrid environments.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform and YAML to deploy cloud resources across environments.
• Collaborate with application, data, and security teams to translate requirements into infrastructure designs balancing performance and cost.
• Analyze usage patterns to right-size resources and apply governance controls to reduce costs without compromising service quality.
• Establish monitoring, observability, and alerting to provide visibility into system health and reduce incidents.
• Guide teams in configuration management and secrets management, ensuring environment segregation for data protection.
• Conduct design and code reviews for infrastructure components to ensure security and regulatory compliance.
• Document architecture decisions and runbooks for day-to-day operations across day shifts.
• Collaborate with investment banking and brokerage stakeholders to align infrastructure with regulatory expectations.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Unit testing

Integration testing

Security testing

Job description

Cognizant in Washington, DC is seeking an Azure DevOps engineer to design automation-first solutions that streamline delivery and improve platform reliability across hybrid environments. The role emphasizes Terraform and YAML for IaC, collaboration with security and application teams, and governance to reduce costs while maintaining service quality.

This position targets candidates with investment banking operations familiarity.