Senior Platform Engineer: GitHub DevOps & Cloud Automation

Cognizant; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 79,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer – GitHub DevOps & Cloud Automation to design scalable, self-service platform capabilities for faster software delivery and reduced operational overhead. You will implement GitHub-based DevOps, Kubernetes platforms, IaC, CI/CD modernization, and cloud-native engineering across hybrid and cloud environments, collaborating with security and operations teams.

In a remote-friendly role, you will lead platform design, governance, and automation, while

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Architecture.
• Strong expertise with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, repository governance, and CI/CD automation.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, including Amazon EKS and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud platforms within AWS environments.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python.
• Experience implementing GitOps methodologies using tools such as ArgoCD.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, scalability, availability, and resilience patterns.
• Experience with observability platforms including Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices including RBAC, mTLS, IRSA, policy enforcement, and security automation.
• Experience designing disaster recovery and backup solutions, including Kubernetes workload protection.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build self-service platform capabilities enabling teams to provision infrastructure with minimal ops.
• Architect and implement GitHub Enterprise-based DevOps platforms, governance, and CI/CD automation.
• Develop and maintain enterprise CI/CD solutions using GitHub Actions, GitOps, and IaC.
• Create reusable platform components, templates, and automation workflows for provisioning and deployments.
• Build scalable Kubernetes-based platforms across cloud environments (AWS EKS, others).
• Automate infrastructure lifecycle management using Terraform and cloud-native services.
• Drive platform reliability through observability with Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Collaborate with dev, ops and security to implement DevSecOps and policy automation.
• Design disaster recovery, backup and resilience strategies for mission-critical platforms.
• Implement GitOps deployment models using ArgoCD to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Evaluate AI-powered platform engineering solutions to improve developer experience and productivity.
• Analyze deployment metrics and platform health to drive improvement and cost optimization.
• Support incident management and platform modernization initiatives across enterprise environments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.

Skills

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

ArgoCD

GitOps

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Tools

OpenSearch

AWS Bedrock

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer – GitHub DevOps & Cloud Automation to design scalable, self-service platform capabilities for faster software delivery and reduced operational overhead. You will implement GitHub-based DevOps, Kubernetes platforms, IaC, CI/CD modernization, and cloud-native engineering across hybrid and cloud environments, collaborating with security and operations teams.

In a remote-friendly role, you will lead platform design, governance, and automation, while