Senior DevOps Engineer with AWS

About the role

In This Role, You Will:

• Design and implement robust cloud native architectures on AWS that enhance availability resilience and scalability for complex enterprise applications in alignment with site reliability engineering principles.
• Define and standardize SRE practices including error budgets, service level objectives, and operational readiness criteria to ensure measurable reliability improvements across critical services.
• Create and maintain automated delivery pipelines using modern DevOps tooling to streamline software integration testing and deployment while reducing manual effort and deployment risk.
• Establish observability strategies by defining logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting patterns that enable proactive detection of issues and faster mean time to recovery.
• Collaborate with platform and application teams to design runbooks, playbooks, and operational workflows that simplify incident response and reduce operational toil for reliability engineers.
• Architect secure DevSecOps practices by integrating security scanning, policy checks, and compliance automation into continuous integration and delivery workflows for all AWS hosted workloads.
• Partner with security and risk stakeholders to interpret compliance requirements and translate them into practical guardrails, controls, and patterns embedded into cloud platform designs.
• Guide teams in adopting cost-efficient AWS architectures by analyzing usage patterns, recommending right-sized solutions, and promoting automation that optimizes infrastructure spend.
• Coordinate with product and engineering teams to evaluate new services in AWS and emerging DevOps tools to determine their fit for platform roadmap and long-term reliability goals.
• Drive root cause analysis for high-impact incidents by facilitating technical discussions, documenting findings, and defining corrective actions that prevent recurrence across similar services.
• Prepare technical reference architectures, patterns, and best practice documentation that enable consistent adoption of SRE, DevOps, and DevSecOps capabilities across multiple programs.
• Mentor engineering teams in reliability mindset, automation-first culture, and secure development practices to ensure sustainable ownership of platforms and services.

Responsibilities

In This Role, You Will:

• Design and operate solutions on AWS platform including core compute, networking, storage, and managed services for large-scale environments.
• Implement SRE concepts such as service level objectives, error budgets, reliability risk assessment, and production readiness reviews for critical systems.
• Use modern DevOps tools covering source control, build automation, artifact management, configuration management, and continuous delivery pipelines in enterprise settings.
• Implement DevSecOps practices including code analysis, dependency scanning, container security, and policy enforcement integrated into build and release workflows.
• Apply solid understanding of infrastructure as code tooling and automation patterns to create reusable, secure, and modular components that support multi-environment deployment strategies.
• Monitor, log, and observe distributed systems to provide actionable insights for performance tuning, capacity planning, and incident response.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with engineering, security, operations, and business partners in a hybrid work model focused on shared outcomes.

Requirements

To Be Considered:

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating solutions on AWS platform including core compute, networking, storage, and managed services for large-scale environments.
• Deep practical expertise in SRE concepts such as service level objectives, error budgets, reliability risk assessment, and production readiness reviews for critical systems.
• Strong experience with modern DevOps tools covering source control, build automation, artifact management, configuration management, and continuous delivery pipelines in enterprise settings.
• Prioritize proven background implementing DevSecOps practices including code analysis, dependency scanning, container security, and policy enforcement integrated into build and release workflows.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure as code tooling and automation patterns to create reusable, secure, and modular components that support multi-environment deployment strategies.
• Proficiency in monitoring, logging, and observability ecosystems that provide actionable insights for performance tuning, capacity planning, and incident response in distributed systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate effectively with engineering, security, operations, and business partners in a hybrid work model focused on shared outcomes.

Qualifications

To Be Considered:

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating solutions on AWS platform including core compute, networking, storage, and managed services for large-scale environments.
• Deep practical expertise in SRE concepts such as service level objectives, error budgets, reliability risk assessment, and production readiness reviews for critical systems.
• Strong experience with modern DevOps tools covering source control, build automation, artifact management, configuration management, and continuous delivery pipelines in enterprise settings.
• Prioritize proven background implementing DevSecOps practices including code analysis, dependency scanning, container security, and policy enforcement integrated into build and release workflows.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure as code tooling and automation patterns to create reusable, secure, and modular components that support multi-environment deployment strategies.
• Proficiency in monitoring, logging, and observability ecosystems that provide actionable insights for performance tuning, capacity planning, and incident response in distributed systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate effectively with engineering, security, operations, and business partners in a hybrid work model focused on shared outcomes.

Skills

To Be Considered:

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating solutions on AWS platform including core compute, networking, storage, and managed services for large-scale environments.
• Deep practical expertise in SRE concepts such as service level objectives, error budgets, reliability risk assessment, and production readiness reviews for critical systems.
• Strong experience with modern DevOps tools covering source control, build automation, artifact management, configuration management, and continuous delivery pipelines in enterprise settings.
• Prioritize proven background implementing DevSecOps practices including code analysis, dependency scanning, container security, and policy enforcement integrated into build and release workflows.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure as code tooling and automation patterns to create reusable, secure, and modular components that support multi-environment deployment strategies.
• Proficiency in monitoring, logging, and observability ecosystems that provide actionable insights for performance tuning, capacity planning, and incident response in distributed systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate effectively with engineering, security, operations, and business partners in a hybrid work model focused on shared outcomes.

Benefits

Applications will be accepted until 8/30/2026. The annual salary for this position is between $64K – $117K 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.

Pay

The annual salary for this position is between $64K – $117K depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Schedule

This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Charlotte, NC. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.