Remote Senior Azure Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; 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 seeking a Senior Azure Infrastructure Automation Engineer to design, implement, and optimize automated Azure infrastructure and Windows endpoint solutions. You will lead enterprise-scale image engineering, automation, vulnerability remediation, and security initiatives across Windows environments.

Join a collaborative Cloud Infrastructure and Security team to build scalable CI/CD pipelines, manage image pipelines with Azure Image Builder, and ensure patching, hardening, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with Azure infrastructure engineering, including Azure Portal, Azure CLI, ARM Templates, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Managed Images, and Azure Image Builder.
• Expert-level experience in Azure VM Engineering and Azure Image Engineering, including building and maintaining enterprise Windows image pipelines.
• Experience building and supporting automated image pipelines using Azure Image Builder and Azure Managed Images.
• 6+ years of hands‑on experience with Ansible, PowerShell, PSADT, Jinja2, and YAML for infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience building and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including merge requests, branching strategies, and artifact management.
• Proven experience supporting Windows 10/11 engineering, Sysprep, image creation, deployment, endpoint hardening, Registry Management, and Windows Update Services.
• Hands‑on experience with vulnerability management, security scans, Microsoft Defender, Tanium, Nessus, Wiz, Zscaler, CyberArk, patching, remediation, and compliance initiatives.
• Experience with Active Directory, Group Policy, Microsoft 365 Apps, and Oracle Client deployments.
• Experience supporting large-scale Windows 11 migration programs in Azure environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated Windows image deployment pipelines using Azure Image Builder, Azure Managed Images, Ansible, and PowerShell.
• Lead Azure VM Engineering and Azure Image Engineering activities, including image creation, testing, optimization, maintenance, and lifecycle management for enterprise Windows environments.
• Engineer and support enterprise Windows 10/11 environments, including image creation, customization, Sysprep, hardening, patching, Windows Update Services, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation solutions utilizing Ansible, PowerShell, PSADT, ARM Templates, Jinja2, and YAML.
• Administer and optimize Azure infrastructure components including Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Portal, Azure CLI, Managed Images, and related cloud services.
• Build and support GitLab CI/CD pipelines utilizing merge requests, branching strategies, source control governance, and artifact management best practices.
• Conduct security scans, vulnerability assessments, image hardening, patch management, and remediation activities using Tanium, Defender, Nessus, Wiz, Zscaler, CyberArk.
• Administer Active Directory, Group Policy, Microsoft 365 Apps, and Oracle Client deployments.
• Monitor platform health, availability, and performance utilizing Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Splunk Forwarder, Event Viewer, and Performance Monitor.
• Support large-scale Windows 11 migration projects and ensure adherence to security, compliance, and operational standards.

Skills

Azure infrastructure

Ansible

PowerShell

GitLab CI/CD

Image engineering

Windows 10/11 engineering

Vulnerability remediation

Tools

Azure Portal

Azure CLI

ARM Templates

Azure Image Builder

Azure Managed Images

Jinja2

PSADT

Tanium

Microsoft Defender

Nessus

Wiz

Zscaler

CyberArk

Active Directory

Group Policy

Microsoft 365 Apps

Oracle Client

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Azure Infrastructure Automation Engineer to design, implement, and optimize automated Azure infrastructure and Windows endpoint solutions. You will lead enterprise-scale image engineering, automation, vulnerability remediation, and security initiatives across Windows environments.

Join a collaborative Cloud Infrastructure and Security team to build scalable CI/CD pipelines, manage image pipelines with Azure Image Builder, and ensure patching, hardening, and