Azure Incident & Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

Downtown Boulder Partnership; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 133,000; 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

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring an Incident Manager and Azure Platform Engineer for a hybrid role. The position requires overseeing incident response, coordinating across teams, and enhancing Azure infrastructure.

Candidates should have strong incident management experience and hands-on Azure, IaC, and CI/CD skills to support secure, scalable cloud workloads. The role emphasizes collaboration with development teams and maintaining reliable cloud services, with a compensation range reflecting experience and

Qualifications

• Experience in incident management and leading response efforts.
• Administration and support for Azure services in enterprise environments.
• Experience writing IaC scripts to automate deployments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Information security practices for cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the entire incident response lifecycle and ensure timely resolution.
• Serve as main incident contact and coordinate communication among teams.
• Identify vulnerabilities and apply safeguards to prevent recurrence.
• Provide administration for Azure services in the EDH platform.
• Manage infra triages and address all infrastructure issues.
• Maintain Azure infrastructure and workloads for performance and reliability.
• Develop IaC scripts to automate resource deployment and management.
• Operate CI/CD and the delivery framework across projects.
• Collaborate with development teams to align infra needs with requirements.

Skills

Azure

Incident management

IaC

CI/CD

Security

Stakeholder communication

Cloud platforms

Job description

Cognizant is hiring an Incident Manager and Azure Platform Engineer for a hybrid role. The position requires overseeing incident response, coordinating across teams, and enhancing Azure infrastructure.

Candidates should have strong incident management experience and hands-on Azure, IaC, and CI/CD skills to support secure, scalable cloud workloads. The role emphasizes collaboration with development teams and maintaining reliable cloud services, with a compensation range reflecting experience and