Remote GCP DevOps Engineer: Cloud Infra & Security

Cognizant; Morrisville (NC); Remote; USD 99,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a GCP DevOps Specialist to join a backend platform team delivering shared orchestration services for a consumer mobile app and its web front ends. The role is remote.

You will own the Google Cloud infrastructure end to end, manage IAM, run CI/CD for serverless workloads, implement monitoring, security hardening, and cost optimization, coordinating with platform, network, and security teams.

Qualifications

• Top 5 keywords/skills listed in job posting include GCP Networking, Shared VPC, Cloud Run, Cloud Function, Cloud Build, GKE, GitHub, IAM security and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Own the team's Google Cloud infrastructure end to end: projects, Shared VPC networking, load balancers, API gateway ingress, TLS certificates, and the Terraform that defines all of it.
• Manage IAM and privileged access, including service account down scoping and access reviews.
• Run the CI/CD and deployment plumbing for the team's serverless workloads.
• Build alerting and monitoring in Cloud Monitoring and investigate production incidents at the platform layer.
• Lead security hardening work such as API key restrictions and secret handling across environments.
• Drive cost optimization by finding and retiring unused resources.
• Review infrastructure pull requests and coordinate with platform, network, and security teams on cross-cutting changes

Skills

GCP Networking

Shared VPC

Cloud Run

Cloud Function

Cloud Build

GKE

GitHub

IAM security

Terraform

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a GCP DevOps Specialist to join a backend platform team delivering shared orchestration services for a consumer mobile app and its web front ends. The role is remote.

You will own the Google Cloud infrastructure end to end, manage IAM, run CI/CD for serverless workloads, implement monitoring, security hardening, and cost optimization, coordinating with platform, network, and security teams.