DevSecOps Engineer

Cognizant is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in Terraform, AWS security, and CI/CD automation. The role involves designing and maintaining Terraform modules, managing cloud resources, and building secure CI/CD pipelines in an enterprise AWS environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design build and maintain reusable Terraform modules with clear interfaces versioning and documentation so other teams can self-serve infrastructure safely
• Manage and optimize HCP Terraform workspaces using VCS-driven workflows - including workspace design variable sets run triggers and policy enforcement
• Provision and manage cloud resources (primarily AWS) following least-privilege access patterns and security best practices
• Manage secrets and sensitive configuration using HashiCorp Vault and/or AWS Secrets Manager
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with proper gating scanning testing and promotion workflows that integrate with HCP Terraform VCS-driven run model
• Conduct security reviews of infrastructure code and pipeline configurations

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on Terraform experience including writing modules with proper state management remote backends and provider configuration
• Hands-on Experience with HCP Terraform (Terraform Cloud) specifically VCS-driven workflows - workspace configuration speculative plans on PRs run approvals and managing workspace variables/variable sets
• Experience with HCP Terraform private registry for publishing and consuming internal modules
• Strong understanding of AWS IAM - policies roles trust relationships permission boundaries and service control policies
• Hands-on Experience with at least one secrets management platform: HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager
• Solid understanding of OIDC and federated identity -how trust is established token exchange and practical application in CI/CD and cloud access
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD including environment promotion approval gates and artifact management
• Security-first mindset - you default to deny scope permissions tightly and can articulate why
• Hands-on Experience using AI coding assistants (Amazon Q Kiro GitHub Copilot or similar) with a clear understanding of when to trust verify and override AI-generated output
• Commitment to human-in-the-loop practices code review manual approval gates for production and treating AI output as a draft - never as the final word
• Experience with Sentinel within HCP Terraform
• Knowledge of infrastructure testing tools
• Contributions to internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling