Senior Platform Engineer: GitHub DevOps & Cloud Automation

Cognizant; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 79,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Paid parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant invites a Senior Platform Engineer – GitHub DevOps & Cloud Automation to craft scalable, self-service platform capabilities and modern CI/CD with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Terraform, and Kubernetes across hybrid and cloud environments.

You will drive GitOps workflows, compute automation, and AI-powered tooling to accelerate software delivery while enhancing reliability and security across enterprise workloads.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Architecture.
• Strong expertise with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, repo governance, and CI/CD automation.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, including EKS and GKE.
• Hands-on Terraform and IaC methodologies.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud platforms within AWS.
• Proficiency in Python scripting/automation.
• Experience implementing GitOps with ArgoCD.
• Understanding of cloud networking, security, scalability, and resilience patterns.
• Experience with observability via Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices: RBAC, mTLS, IRSA, policy enforcement, automation.
• Experience planning disaster recovery and Kubernetes backup solutions.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build self-service platform capabilities for provisioning infrastructure with minimal ops.
• Architect and implement GitHub Enterprise-based DevOps platforms and governance models.
• Develop CI/CD solutions using GitHub Actions, GitOps, and IaC practices.
• Create reusable platform components, templates, and automation workflows.
• Build scalable Kubernetes-based platforms across clouds including AWS EKS.
• Automate lifecycle management with Terraform and cloud-native services.
• Improve platform reliability with observability tools and dashboards.
• Partner with security teams to integrate DevSecOps controls and policy enforcement.
• Design disaster recovery and backup strategies for mission-critical platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.
• Enable AI-powered tooling to boost developer productivity and ops efficiency.

Skills

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

ArgoCD

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Tools

AWS

AWS Bedrock

OpenSearch

GenAI tech

CloudBees CI

Job description

Cognizant invites a Senior Platform Engineer – GitHub DevOps & Cloud Automation to craft scalable, self-service platform capabilities and modern CI/CD with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Terraform, and Kubernetes across hybrid and cloud environments.

You will drive GitOps workflows, compute automation, and AI-powered tooling to accelerate software delivery while enhancing reliability and security across enterprise workloads.