Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote

Cognizant; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 55,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance (Long-term/Short-

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a remote role, based in the United States. The engineer will design and operate secure CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and release controls for FedRAMP High regulated financial applications in the FedRAMP High government cloud.

Remote work is available with in-person interviews possible at times. The role requires deep Azure Government experience, Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and strong focus on security, compliance, and incident

Qualifications

• 8+ years of DevOps, cloud engineering, site reliability, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation experience in regulated environments.
• Azure Government or Azure cloud services, Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, vulnerability management, secure configuration, containerized deployment patterns, observability, incident response support, and control evidence generation for FedRAMP High or comparable frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, environment promotion controls, release gates, and rollback patterns.
• Implement and support Azure Government cloud infrastructure, identity integration, network segmentation, secrets management, logging, monitoring, vulnerability scanning, and compliance evidence collection.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, QA, and security teams to embed static analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, configuration validation, and remediation workflows.
• Support FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, continuous monitoring, audit evidence, change management, vulnerability management, incident response, and secure configuration practices.

Skills

DevOps experience

Cloud engineering

Azure Government

Terraform

CI/CD

Security

FedRAMP High

Incident response

Observability

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Bicep

Terraform

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote

The Senior DevSecOps Engineer builds, secures, automates, and operates the delivery pipelines, infrastructure patterns, monitoring capabilities, and compliance evidence mechanisms required for regulated financial applications deployed in a FedRAMP High government cloud environment. This role embeds security, compliance reliability, and repeatability into the software delivery lifecycle.

Important Disclaimers:

**Please note: A few of our roles may require in-person interviews at Cognizant offices or client locations, depending on project or client needs.**

In this role, you will:

• Design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, environment promotion controls, release gates, and rollback patterns.
• Implement and support Azure Government cloud infrastructure, identity integration, network segmentation, secrets management, logging, monitoring, vulnerability scanning, and compliance evidence collection.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, QA, and security teams to embed static analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, configuration validation, and remediation workflows.
• Support FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, continuous monitoring, audit evidence, change management, vulnerability management, incident response, and secure configuration practices.

Location: Dallas,TX
Work model: Remote

We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the US. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

What you need to have to be considered:

• 8+ years of DevOps, cloud engineering, site reliability, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation experience in regulated environments
• Azure Government or Azure cloud services, Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, vulnerability management, secure configuration, containerized deployment patterns, observability, incident response support, and control evidence generation for FedRAMP High or comparable compliance frameworks.

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until 11/01/2026.

The annual salary for this position is between $55K – 114K depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• 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

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.