Cognizant is hiring an Infra. Technology Specialist

Cognizant is hiring an Infrastructure Technology Specialist to own the DevSecOps platform for our international client’s Developer Platform and toolchain. This role combines hands-on technical leadership across AWS and Azure with people management to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable services. You will join a global team collaborating on solutions for the world's leading companies.

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of DevSecOps engineers, providing mentoring, managing backlog priorities, conducting code reviews, and setting standards.
• Engage with delivery leadership, product owners, security, and infrastructure teams to translate requirements, align roadmaps, and manage expectations.
• Drive incident and post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, risk management, and proactive improvement plans.
• Architect, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure including EKS, RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, and EBS.
• Contribute to growing Azure workloads, focusing on AKS, IAM/Entra ID fundamentals, and networking.
• Operate Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) at scale, managing deployments, ingress, Helm, performance, cost, and capacity.
• Own the full lifecycle of the DevSecOps toolchain: Artifactory, SonarQube, Fortify, Confluence, GitGuardian, Sonatype (deployment/upgrades, hardening, monitoring, disaster recovery).
• Run self‑hosted agents on AWS for Azure DevOps Pipelines and extend CI/CD with GitHub (Actions, Advanced Security).
• Champion GitHub Copilot adoption and establish guardrails.
• Integrate security into pipelines (SAST/SCA/secret scanning) and manage TLS certificates and secrets.
• Standardize observability with Datadog dashboards, alerts, traces, and logs, migrating from legacy Prometheus/Grafana.
• Design secure access using LDAP, SAML, SCIM, Azure AD (Entra ID), and SSO.
• Define and execute backup and disaster recovery strategies for critical applications.

What We're Looking For

• Hands-on experience with AWS services: EKS, RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, EBS.
• Fundamental knowledge of Azure, including AKS, networking, and identity.
• Proven experience in Kubernetes operations (deployments, ingress, Helm).
• Expertise in CI/CD with Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub (Actions), including managing self‑hosted runners/agents on AWS.
• Experience with DevSecOps tools: Artifactory, SonarQube, Fortify, Confluence.
• Strong skills in Linux, Shell scripting, Docker, and managing TLS & secrets.
• Proficiency with the Datadog observability platform.

Nice to Have

• Experience with IAM and federation: LDAP, SAML, SCIM, Azure AD (Entra ID), SSO.
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform.
• Familiarity with ITSM/ServiceNow and change, incident, and problem processes.
• Experience with Copilot enablement: patterns, prompts, policy, and governance.

Technical Stack

• Cloud: AWS, Azure
• Containers/Orchestration: Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, Docker, Helm
• AWS Services: RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, EBS
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions
• DevSecOps Tools: Artifactory, SonarQube, Fortify, Confluence, GitGuardian, Sonatype
• Infrastructure/OS: Linux, Shell
• Observability: Datadog
• Identity/Access: LDAP, SAML, SCIM, Azure AD (Entra ID), SSO
• Other: Terraform, ServiceNow

Team & Environment

You will lead a team of DevSecOps engineers, providing technical direction and mentorship. You'll operate in a rapidly growing, international environment focused on creating innovative solutions for leading global companies.