Senior DevOps Engineer-REMOTE

Cognizant; Mangum (NC); Remote; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to work in a hybrid model, enhancing operational efficiency through innovative solutions within the Industrial Manufacturing and Transportation & Logistics sectors. As a Principal Engineer, you will utilize your expertise in Python, Azure DevOps, and Terraform to lead teams in driving impactful results, ensuring robust system designs and high availability across various client environments.

Benefits

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience with Jenkins and Terraform.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with logging solutions like Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain tools for scalable software systems.
• Work with engineering teams to provide technical solutions.
• Streamline deployment and operational workflows through automation.

Skills

DevOps best practices

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Automation tools

CI/CD

Shell scripting

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Bitbucket

SonarQube

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About Us

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

About Us

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

About Cognizant’s IoT Practice

Intelligent, IoT-enabled products will soon result in the proliferation of data and disrupt virtually all industries. To be successful, both large and small companies must leverage IoT capabilities by designing modern products that fundamentally connect people with processes. Within Cognizant IOT, we engineer industry-aligned, IoT-enabled products that merge industry needs with human drivers. Our intelligent products will revolutionize experiences and result in exciting, transformative outcomes. Without human-centered thinking, connected products are just standalone things—but with it, our modern connected products facilitate a unified way of life enjoyed by all.

Job Summary

As a Principal Engineer you will leverage your extensive experience in Python3 Azure DevOps Jenkins CI and Terraform to drive innovative solutions within the Industrial Manufacturing and Transportation & Logistics domains. You will work in a hybrid model collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency and deliver impactful results. Your expertise will be pivotal in shaping the future of our technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• This role requires a comprehensive understanding of DevOps best practices including version control automation deployment and monitoring.
• In this role you will work with various Engineering team members to provide technical solutions as well as guide and support other DevOps Engineers on the implementation.
• Design build maintain and troubleshoot tools and pipelines for creating and managing scalable secure distributed software systems.
• Foster a passion for improving product and system availability performance scalability and security.
• Operate cloud production systems with a strong focus on monitoring and metrics to assess feature health and usage.
• Collaborate closely with product management and application engineers to ensure robust system design prioritizing high availability.
• Lead the evaluation of new technologies and drive their integration into our technology stack.
• Provide support for deploying and operating multiple clusters across various client manufacturing sites and the global client business network.
• Assist in deploying and operating Dev QA and Prod clusters at AWS.
• Streamline deployment and operational workflows through automation.
• Thoroughly document systems processes and assets to meet client expectations for business continuity.
• Administer CI tools (BitBucket Jenkins Artifactory SonarQube)
• Work closely with the vendor in addressing any major upgrades plug-ins and critical fixes.
• Propose and implement new technical strategies for DevOps processes.
  
  

Qualifications

• Demonstrable track record of successful DevOps implementations with a deep understanding of modern infrastructure and automation tools.
• Extensive Hands-On experience with Docker Docker-Compose Kubernetes Helm and image management.
• Five or more years of experience with Terraform Ansible or similar system automation/deployment tools.
• Five or more years of experience with build systems like Jenkins and Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Proficiency in shell scripting and Python.
• Familiarity with enterprise logging solutions like Datadog.
• Experience with Apache Pulsar and PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with JFrog Artifactory.
• Competence in Linux system administration.
• Strong teamwork skills and the ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Availability in Eastern or Central US time zones (EST or CST)
• Java development experience is a bonus.
• Experience in migrating existing workloads to Kubernetes is a plus.
• Background in logistics warehousing 24/7 operational environments and distributed cloud/on prem deployments
• The annual salary for this position is between $130K– $155K 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. Applications will be accepted until June 19th , 2025
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Business Consulting and Services

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