Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Cognizant; Big Beaver (MI); On-site; USD 92,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays + PTO

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and support scalable cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC with a focus on automation, reliability, and cost optimization.

You will join a high-performing team collaborating with engineers and designers to deliver high-impact systems, while mentoring others and contributing to incident response improvements. This is a fulltime position aligned with Cognizant IoT practice.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as DevOps, SRE, PE or infrastructure engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on with cloud platforms, especially AWS.
• Advanced Linux systems expertise including systemd, cgroups, namespaces, OS tuning.
• Deep Kubernetes and cloud networking knowledge beyond fundamentals.
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads (EKS / Docker).
• Terraform and infrastructure automation expertise.
• Python and Bash scripting proficiency.
• Experience with Git, Jenkins, and artifact repositories.
• Networking fundamentals: DNS, DHCP, VPN, LDAP.
• Monitoring/logging with DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK.
• Understanding of VPCs, security groups, IAM policies.
• Agile teams experience; familiarity with JIRA and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, including modules and remote state.
• Implement GitOps using Flux or Argo CD for declarative environment management.
• Own Kubernetes as a Service platforms with multi-cluster lifecycle and autoscaling.
• Troubleshoot traffic flows and optimize cloud networking (CNI, ingress, load balancing).
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments.
• Automate provisioning with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Write and maintain infrastructure-as-code for all environments with Terraform.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize infrastructure performance and cost.
• Integrate third-party tools and internal scripts as needed.
• Create documentation including runbooks and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response improvements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to match infrastructure with application/business needs.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Ansible

Jenkins

Git

Python

Bash

Puppet

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer engineering / Software Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Flux / Argo CD

EKS / Docker

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and support scalable cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC with a focus on automation, reliability, and cost optimization.

You will join a high-performing team collaborating with engineers and designers to deliver high-impact systems, while mentoring others and contributing to incident response improvements. This is a fulltime position aligned with Cognizant IoT practice.