Sr. DevOps Engineer

Cognizant; Teaneck Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 135,000; 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 DevOps Engineer to design and automate secure, reusable enterprise CI/CD pipelines and modular Azure infrastructure. You will collaborate across DevOps, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to accelerate trusted software delivery.

Key responsibilities include building GitHub Actions pipelines, securing deployments, and implementing robust Azure architectures. This hybrid role requires 3 days/week onsite in Teaneck, NJ.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional DevOps/CI/CD engineering experience.
• Advanced practical experience designing GitHub Actions pipelines and workflows.
• Strong Git/GitHub expertise including branch protection and governance.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep, modular templates and linting.
• Strong PowerShell and Python scripting for automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize reusable enterprise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Automate secure deployments and promotion across environments with approvals, artifacts, secrets, and protections.
• Implement GitHub governance, branch protections, Rulesets, PR validation, and security gates.
• Design and automate secure Azure environments using modular Bicep templates and reusable modules.
• Develop automation in PowerShell and Python for provisioning, validation, and tooling.

Skills

DevOps

Azure architecture

GitHub Actions

Azure Bicep

PowerShell

Python scripting

Security & governance

What-if analysis

Tools

GitHub

Azure

Bicep

Job description

Sr. DevOps Engineer

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will make an impact by designing and automating secure, reusable enterprise CI/CD pipelines and modular Azure infrastructure that accelerate reliable, governed software delivery across the full environment lifecycle. You will be a valued member of the DevOps Engineering team within Cloud & Infrastructure Services and work collaboratively with DevOps leads, engineers, architects, QA, product, security, infrastructure, and networking teams.

In this role, you will

• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize reusable enterprise CI/CD pipelines, workflow templates, and composite actions using GitHub Actions.

• Automate secure deployments and promotion across development, integration, QA, UAT, staging, and production environments, including approvals, artifacts, secrets, and environment protections.

• Implement GitHub governance, branch protections, Rulesets, pull-request validation, required checks, reviewer controls, quality gates, and security scanning.

• Design and automate secure Azure environments using modular, parameterized Bicep templates, reusable modules, validation, linting, and what-if analysis.

• Develop maintainable PowerShell and Python automation for provisioning, validation, repository operations, security checks, reporting, diagnostics, and operational tooling.

Work model

At Cognizant, 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 Teaneck, New Jersey. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you need to have to be considered

• 10+ years of professional DevOps/CI/CD engineering experience and 10+ years of hands‑on Microsoft Azure architecture, implementation, security, automation, and operational experience.

• Advanced practical experience designing GitHub Actions pipelines, reusable workflows, composite actions, artifact strategies, environment promotion, and secure Azure integration.

• Strong Git/GitHub expertise, including branch protection, GitHub Rulesets, pull‑request validation, required checks, quality gates, automated testing, and repository governance.

• Strong Infrastructure as Code expertise with Azure Bicep, including modular templates, parameters, reusable blueprints, linting, validation, and what‑if analysis.

• Strong PowerShell and Python scripting skills with the ability to create production‑quality, reusable, secure, maintainable, and documented automation.

These will help you stand out

• Deep understanding of Azure security and DevSecOps practices, including least privilege, RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, private connectivity, and automated security controls.

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, permissions, configuration, deployment, and networking failures independently.

• Hands‑on experience applying Azure networking and security best practices, including private endpoints, VNets, subnets, NSGs, DNS, peering, routing, logging, monitoring, and alerting.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, collaboration, technical ownership, and an automation‑first engineering mindset.

• Responsible use of AI‑assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude AI.

We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.

Salary and Other Compensation

Applications will be accepted until October 19th, 2026.

• The annual salary for this position is between $75,000.00 - $135,000.00 depending on the 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