Cognizant is hiring an Infrastructure Technology Specialist to own and lead the DevSecOps platform for a large international client. You will combine hands-on technical expertise across AWS & Azure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD with people leadership and stakeholder management to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable services.
What You'll Do
- Lead, mentor, and manage the backlog and priorities for a team of DevSecOps engineers.
- Engage with delivery leadership, product owners, security, and infrastructure teams to translate requirements and align roadmaps.
- Drive incident response, post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, and proactive improvement plans.
- Architect, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure (EKS, RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, EBS) and contribute to growing Azure workloads (AKS, IAM/Entra ID, networking).
- Operate Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) at scale, managing deployments, ingress, Helm, performance, cost, and capacity.
- Own the lifecycle of the DevSecOps toolchain, including Artifactory, SonarQube, Fortify, Confluence, GitGuardian, and Sonatype.
- Run self-hosted agents on AWS for Azure DevOps Pipelines and extend CI/CD with GitHub Actions, championing GitHub Copilot adoption and guardrails.
- Integrate security scanning (SAST/SCA/secret scanning) into pipelines 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 (EKS, RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, EBS) and Azure fundamentals (AKS, networking, identity).
- Proven experience with Kubernetes operations, including deployments, ingress, and Helm.
- Expertise in CI/CD using Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions, including self-hosted runners/agents on AWS.
- Practical experience with DevSecOps tools such as Artifactory, SonarQube, Fortify, and Confluence.
- Strong skills in Linux, Shell scripting, and Docker, with knowledge of TLS and secrets management.
- Experience implementing observability with Datadog.
Nice to Have
- Experience with IAM and federation technologies (LDAP, SAML, SCIM, Azure AD/Entra ID, SSO).
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Knowledge of ITSM/ServiceNow and change, incident, and problem management processes.
- Experience with Copilot enablement, including patterns, prompts, and policy governance.
Technical Stack
- Cloud: AWS, Azure
- AWS Services: EKS, RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, EBS
- Azure Services: AKS
- Containerization & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Helm, Docker
- CI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions
- DevSecOps Tools: Artifactory, SonarQube, Fortify, Confluence, GitGuardian, Sonatype
- Systems & Scripting: Linux, Shell
- Observability: Datadog
- Security & Identity: LDAP, SAML, SCIM, Azure AD (Entra ID), SSO
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- ITSM: ServiceNow
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