Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote

Cognizant is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, secure, automate, and operate delivery pipelines and infrastructure for regulated financial applications in a FedRAMP High government cloud environment. The role embeds security, compliance, reliability, and repeatability into software delivery and supports cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and compliance evidence mechanisms.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, environment promotion controls, release gates, and rollback patterns
• Implement and support Azure Government cloud infrastructure, identity integration, network segmentation, secrets management, logging, monitoring, vulnerability scanning, and compliance evidence collection
• Partner with engineering, architecture, QA, and security teams to embed static analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, configuration validation, and remediation workflows
• Support FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, continuous monitoring, audit evidence, change management, vulnerability management, incident response, and secure configuration practices

Requirements:

• 8+ years of DevOps, cloud engineering, site reliability, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation experience in regulated environments
• Azure Government or Azure cloud services, Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, vulnerability management, secure configuration, containerized deployment patterns, observability, incident response support, and control evidence generation for FedRAMP High or comparable compliance frameworks