Senior DevOps Engineer with AWS

Cognizant; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 64,000 - 117,000; 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 in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with AWS to design and operate cloud-native architectures. You will standardize SRE practices, develop automated CI/CD pipelines, and implement secure, IaC-driven environments across enterprise workloads.

You will drive observability, incident response, and cross-team collaboration while mentoring peers and aligning with platform roadmaps. This hybrid role requires on-site presence in Charlotte three days a week.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating solutions on AWS including compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
• Deep practical expertise in SRE concepts: objectives, error budgets, reliability risk assessment, and production readiness reviews.
• Strong experience with modern DevOps tools covering source control, build automation, artifact management, configuration management, and CD pipelines.
• Proven background implementing DevSecOps: code analysis, dependency scanning, container security, policy enforcement in build/release.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure as code tooling and automation patterns for multi-environment deployment.
• Proficiency in monitoring, logging, and observability ecosystems for performance tuning and incident response.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management for hybrid work alignment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud native architectures on AWS with SRE focus.
• Define and standardize SRE practices including SLOs, error budgets, and operational readiness.
• Develop and maintain automated delivery pipelines to streamline integration, testing and deployment.
• Create and optimize infrastructure as code solutions for repeatable provisioning.
• Establish observability strategies with logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Collaborate with teams to design runbooks and incident response workflows.
• Architect secure DevSecOps practices integrated into CI/CD workflows.
• Translate compliance requirements into guardrails and patterns in cloud designs.
• Guide teams to adopt cost-efficient AWS architectures and automation.
• Evaluate new AWS services and DevOps tools for platform roadmaps.
• Lead root cause analyses and document corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Prepare reference architectures and best practice documentation.
• Mentor teams in reliability mindset and secure development practices.

Skills

AWS

SRE concepts

DevOps tooling

DevSecOps

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring/observability

Stakeholder management

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

IaC tooling

Job description

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.

Senior DevOps Engineer with AWS

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

Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

In This Role, You Will

• Design and implement robust cloud native architectures on AWS that enhance availability resilience and scalability for complex enterprise applications in alignment with site reliability engineering principles
• Define and standardize SRE practices including error budgets service level objectives and operational readiness criteria to ensure measurable reliability improvements across critical services
• Develop and maintain automated delivery pipelines using modern DevOps tooling to streamline software integration testing and deployment while reducing manual effort and deployment risk
• Create and optimize infrastructure as code solutions using AWS native capabilities and industry standard tools to ensure repeatable auditable and secure environment provisioning
• Establish observability strategies by defining logging metrics tracing and alerting patterns that enable proactive detection of issues and faster mean time to recovery
• Collaborate with platform and application teams to design runbooks playbooks and operational workflows that simplify incident response and reduce operational toil for reliability engineers
• Architect secure DevSecOps practices by integrating security scanning policy checks and compliance automation into continuous integration and delivery workflows for all AWS hosted workloads
• Partner with security and risk stakeholders to interpret compliance requirements and translate them into practical guardrails controls and patterns embedded into cloud platform designs
• Guide teams in adopting cost efficient AWS architectures by analyzing usage patterns recommending right sized solutions and promoting automation that optimizes infrastructure spend
• Coordinate with product and engineering teams to evaluate new services in AWS and emerging DevOps tools to determine their fit for platform roadmap and long term reliability goals
• Drive root cause analysis for high impact incidents by facilitating technical discussions documenting findings and defining corrective actions that prevent recurrence across similar services
• Prepare technical reference architectures patterns and best practice documentation that enable consistent adoption of SRE DevOps and
• DevSecOps capabilities across multiple programs
• Mentor engineering teams in reliability mindset automation first culture and secure development practices to ensure sustainable ownership of platforms and services

Work model

Hybrid

Location

Charlotte - NC

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Charlotte, NC. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

What You Need To Have To Be Considered

• Possess extensive hands on experience designing and operating solutions on AWS platform including core compute networking storage and managed services for large scale environments
• Demonstrate deep practical expertise in SRE concepts such as service level objectives error budgets reliability risk assessment and production readiness reviews for critical systems
• Exhibit strong experience with modern DevOps tools covering source control build automation artifact management configuration management and continuous delivery pipelines in enterprise settings
• Show proven background implementing DevSecOps practices including code analysis dependency scanning container security and policy enforcement integrated into build and release workflows
• Apply solid understanding of infrastructure as code tooling and automation patterns to create reusable secure and modular components that support multi environment deployment strategies
• Display proficiency in monitoring logging and observability ecosystems that provide actionable insights for performance tuning capacity planning and incident response in distributed systems
• Demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate effectively with engineering security operations and business partners in a hybrid work model focused on shared outcomes

Salary And Other Compensation

Applications will be accepted until 8/30/2026.

The annual salary for this position is between $64K – $117K 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

• 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.