Senior DevOps Engineer
Cognizant
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This role pays less than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $126,750–$185,675 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $92k versus about $156k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
Cognizant currently has 330 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$135,000 across 211 roles with salary data.
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The Sr. DevOps Engineer will join the team to design scalable deployment pipelines and improve continuous delivery practices across multiple application environments. The primary responsibilities include building reusable, version-controlled Harness Golden Pipelines for development, sign-off, pre-production, and production environments. The role involves implementing governance, security controls, and approval workflows while replacing custom scripts and Jenkins-based wrappers with native Harness capabilities. Key technical requirements include configuring and troubleshooting Argo CD and Argo Rollouts, as well as integrating DevSecOps tools for Static Application Security Testing, Dynamic Application Security Testing, and Software Composition Analysis. The position requires documenting onboarding patterns and runbooks to solve deployment and application delivery issues. Candidates should possess experience with security platforms like SonarQube, Checkmarx, Snyk, or Veracode to ensure secure, reliable solutions.
What does a DevOps Engineer earn?
Median $130000 from 89 postings across 27 companies.
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