Job Specifications
About The Group
Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about accepting digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the constantly evolving needs of the digital era. Our broad approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to own the business in a secure environment.
Role Title: AWS Cloud Engineer/DevOps Engineer
Location: Pittsburgh, Dallas, Birmingham, Cleveland
Key Responsibilities
Looking for a seasoned and impact-driven Sr. DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience automating and optimizing cloud infrastructure across AWS, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments.
Mandatory Skills: Ansible, Terraform, Python, Power Shell
Job Responsibilities
Lead the development of Ansible roles for Linux security hardening and Windows patching.
Automate EC2 provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, achieve reduction in manual effort and migrated PowerShell-based services into Ansible Tower, cutting run failures.
Built reusable Terraform modules to standardize VPC, EC2, and DNS provisioning across DR environments.
Lead the Ansible-based automation of Linux nodes and develop hybrid-cloud provisioning workflows with Packer and Terraform to standardize and secure infrastructure baselines.
Highly proficient in Terraform, Ansible, Python, and PowerShell, with extensive hands-on expertise across both Linux and Windows platforms.
Strong background in designing and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and compliance enforcement in regulated enterprise environments.
Championed the adoption of Terraform across engineering teams, significantly improving provisioning speed and consistency.
Automated the deployment of monitoring agents via Ansible and shell scripts, increasing infrastructure visibility.
Automated infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and CloudFormation.
Built Python tools to generate weekly audit reports by aggregating compliance scanner output, supporting regulatory reporting workflows.
Design multi-region Terraform modules for VPC, IAM, and EKS
Develop Python scripts to validate compliance and enforce tagging standards during pipeline executions
Migrate PowerShell-based Windows services to Ansible Tower
Lead infrastructure automation for security scanning platform rollout
Orchestrate full-stack deployments using Ansible and Terraform
Build reusable Terraform modules for VPC, security groups, EC2, and DNS zones, improving disaster recovery environment consistency.
Automated Linux provisioning scripts for audit compliance checks, reducing the manual patching backlog
Design cross-platform backup solutions using Ansible and native cloud SDKs
Partner with security teams to deploy open-source scanners via IaC pipelines, ensuring alignment with company policies
Automate multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, reducing provisioning cycle times
Develop PowerShell and Bash scripts to enforce configuration policies across hybrid environments
Create hardened AMI images for Linux and Windows using Packer and Ansible
Write Terraform modules for GCP and AWS resource creation, standardizing access patterns and resource tagging.
Deploy monitoring agents using Ansible and shell scripts
Design Terraform templates for rapid cloud resource provisioning
Infrastructure Automation: Terraform (IaC), Ansible, CloudFormation
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP - EC2, VPC, AKS, GKE, Lambda, DNS
Scripting & Programming: Python, Bash, Shell, PowerShell
OS & Platforms: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL), Windows Server, Containers, Kubernetes
CI/CD & Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK
Benefits
Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
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. Eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.