Remote AWS Cloud Lead - DevSecOps & CI/CD Architect

Cognizant; Baton Rouge (LA); Remote; USD 114,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays & PTO

Stock Purchase Plan

Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant seeks a Cloud Lead- AWS DevSecOps to design, implement, and optimize scalable AWS-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and secure deployment frameworks. The candidate will leverage GitLab, Terraform, and AWS CDK across multi-account environments.

This remote US role requires deep AWS, DevSecOps, and observability skills, with emphasis on security, compliance (PCI DSS, SOC 2), and performance tuning. Eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with AWS cloud services.
• Hands-on Terraform and AWS CDK expertise.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD and pipeline automation.
• Strong container platform experience (ECS/EKS, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in DevSecOps tools and security integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust GitLab CI/CD pipelines for multi-environment deployments.
• Configure and manage GitLab Runners (EC2/EKS) for scalability and security.
• Optimize pipelines with parallel execution and caching.
• Implement automated release management with tagging and rollbacks.
• Develop IaC using Terraform and AWS CDK with modular design.

Skills

AWS expertise

CI/CD engineering

DevSecOps

Kubernetes

Security compliance

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

GitLab CI/CD

ECS/EKS

Helm

Datadog

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

Cognizant seeks a Cloud Lead- AWS DevSecOps to design, implement, and optimize scalable AWS-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and secure deployment frameworks. The candidate will leverage GitLab, Terraform, and AWS CDK across multi-account environments.

This remote US role requires deep AWS, DevSecOps, and observability skills, with emphasis on security, compliance (PCI DSS, SOC 2), and performance tuning. Eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program.