Sr. DevOps Architect

About Us

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

About Cognizant’s Digital Engineering Practice

At Cognizant Digital Engineering, small cross functional teams comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, DevOps Engineers and a Big Data analyst build higher quality software faster than siloed individuals working independently. Small, nimble engineering teams builds collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality deliverables. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies. Cognizant is seeking an experienced Architect with 8-10 years of expertise specializing in Terraform AWS DevOps and Automation among other key skills. This role is pivotal in designing and implementing robust architecture within the Payments domain leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation and efficiency.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of scalable secure and efficient solutions using Terraform and AWS DevOps practices. Drive automation processes to enhance operational efficiency and reliability. Develop and manage containerized environments ensuring seamless deployment and scalability. Implement and maintain API Gateways and Container Registries to support microservices architecture. Utilize Docker for containerization ensuring lightweight portable and self-sufficient containers. Oversee the security aspects of cloud platforms particularly AWS and Google Cloud integrating DevSecOps practices to safeguard applications. Champion DevOps concepts and tools fostering a culture of continuous integration and delivery with tools like Jenkins and GITHUB. Manage Apigee API Management to design secure and scale API programs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure architectural designs align with business objectives. Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends particularly in cloud storage serverless architectures and network security to recommend and implement improvements.Qualifications

Qualifications

Required Skills

Technical Skills- Terraform

AWS

DevOps Automation

DevOps Container environment set-up

API Gateway Container Registry

Docker AWS Platform

Google Cloud Platform

Security

DevSecOps

DevOps Concepts

DevOps Tools

Apigee

API Management

GITHUB J

enkins

Nice To Have Skills

Techincal Skills- Microservices

Prometheus

Grafana

Serverless Cloud Storage

SRE

Network

Domain Skills

Work Authorization

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

Salary And Other Compensation

The annual salary for this position is between $[52,000 – 146,600] depending on 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: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life InsurancePaid holidays plus Paid Time Off401(k) plan and contributionsLong-term/Short-term DisabilityPaid Parental LeaveEmployee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Keywords

DevOps AWS Azure Cloud Unix Windows Kubernetes Jenkins CI/CD Docker Containerization Scripting Terraforma Bitbucket Puppet Chef

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Apr 08 2024

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @USJobsCognizant.

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