Senior DevOps Engineer

Cognizant

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Work type: Remote
Location: Dallas, TX
Posted: 14 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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TL;DR · Senior DevOps Engineer

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The Senior DevOps Engineer joins the team to build, secure, automate, and operate delivery pipelines, infrastructure patterns, monitoring capabilities, and compliance evidence mechanisms for regulated financial applications within a FedRAMP High government cloud environment. The successful candidate will design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and environment promotion controls. Key responsibilities include implementing Azure Government cloud infrastructure, identity integration, network segmentation, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning. You will partner with engineering and security teams to embed static analysis, dependency scanning, and container image scanning into the software delivery lifecycle. Required technical skills include Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and experience with NIST 800-53, continuous monitoring, incident response, and generating control evidence for high-security compliance frameworks.

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Skills

Azure Government Terraform Bicep Azure DevOps GitHub Actions CI/CD Infrastructure as Code Vulnerability Management NIST 800-53 FedRAMP High Secrets Management Static Analysis Dependency Scanning Observability Incident Response Network Segmentation

What you'll do

Design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation.
Implement and support Azure Government cloud infrastructure, identity integration, and network segmentation.
Manage secrets management, logging, monitoring, and vulnerability scanning systems.
Embed static analysis, dependency scanning, and container scanning into the software delivery lifecycle.
Collect and manage compliance evidence for FedRAMP High and NIST 800-53 standards.
Execute vulnerability management, incident response, and secure configuration practices.
Automate environment promotion controls, release gates, and rollback patterns.

What we're looking for

8+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, site reliability, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation in regulated environments.
Experience with Azure Government or Azure cloud services.
Proficiency with Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions.
Experience with CI/CD, vulnerability management, secure configuration, and containerized deployment patterns.
Experience with observability, incident response support, and control evidence generation.
Knowledge of FedRAMP High or comparable compliance frameworks.
Ability to work in a remote capacity within the United States.

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