Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote

About the role

The Senior DevSecOps Engineer builds, secures, automates, and operates the delivery pipelines, infrastructure patterns, monitoring capabilities, and compliance evidence mechanisms required for regulated financial applications deployed in a FedRAMP High government cloud environment. This role embeds security, compliance, reliability, and repeatability into the software delivery lifecycle. Location: Dallas, TX. Work model: Remote. This position is open to qualified applicants in the US and supports a healthy work-life balance through various wellbeing programs.

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.
• Experience with 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.

Benefits

• 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

Pay

Applications will be accepted until 11/01/2026. This position is eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.