Remote AWS Cloud Architect - DevSecOps Lead

Cognizant; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 114,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid Holidays

401(k) plan

Stock Purchase Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Disability Insurance

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Cloud Lead- AWS DevSecOps to design and drive secure, scalable cloud architectures in a remote US setting. You will own CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and deployment strategies across multiple AWS accounts and regions.

The role emphasizes expertise in GitLab, Terraform, AWS CDK, and container platforms, with a focus on security controls, observability, and compliance in enterprise environments. A strong leadership mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years AWS cloud experience.
• Hands-on Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid container platform experience (ECS/EKS).
• Proficient in DevSecOps tools and security integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement GitLab CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Configure GitLab Runners (EC2/EKS) for scalability and security.
• Optimize pipelines with parallelism and caching.
• Automate IaC using Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Support multi-account, multi-region AWS deployments.
• Implement blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments.
• Automate container deployments to ECS/EKS and manage Helm.
• Enforce security controls within CI/CD and IAM.
• Enable observability with CloudWatch and third-party tools.
• Troubleshoot CI/CD, infra, and networking issues.

Skills

AWS Cloud services

Terraform

AWS CDK

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes

Security integration

Tools

GitLab

EC2

EKS

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Cloud Lead- AWS DevSecOps to design and drive secure, scalable cloud architectures in a remote US setting. You will own CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and deployment strategies across multiple AWS accounts and regions.

The role emphasizes expertise in GitLab, Terraform, AWS CDK, and container platforms, with a focus on security controls, observability, and compliance in enterprise environments. A strong leadership mindset is essential.