Devops Engineer

About the group:

Cognizant’s Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about accepting digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the constantly evolving needs of the digital era. Our broad approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to own the business in a secure environment.

Job Tittle: DevOps Engineer

LOCATION: Chicago, IL

Job Summary

Mandatory Skills required: GitHub Actions, Amazon EKS, JBOSS, IaC Terraform, Argo CDP (medium).

• Create and manage Github Actions pipelines for diff use cases like IaC, CICD, Monitoring, Custom pipelines
• Create and Manage AWS Infrastructure using IAC, preferably Terraform, Ansible, Packer.
• Good Scripting knowledge like Shell, Python and well-versed with YAML, JSON
• Identify Automation opportunities for infra, Environment and log management
• Infrastructure provisioning, decommissioning, Cloud Operations management
• Hands on experience in managing the large scale containers using Kubernetes and Containerization concepts
• Good knowledge on the version control system, preferably Git.
• Implementing, support and maintaining the other DevOps tools like Maven, Sonarqube, Veracode, ECR, Git, GitFlow, Kubernetes, etc.
• Good to have exposure on monitoring stacks like Prometheus, Grafana and ELK.
• Should be able to work independently and deliver the projects with Agility.
• Should have good understanding on Linux environment.
• Understanding on key AWS services.
• Work closely with other stakeholders like Product Development team, Release and Change management folks to deliver Devops tasks.
• Nice to have understanding on Middleware components like Jboss and Nginx.
• Good flair towards presentation skills. Able to present and demonstrate solution in a convincing manner. Able to convince all stake holders involved towards the recommended solutions.
• Continuous Process Improvements, Quality initiatives, Standardization and fine-tuning

Applications will be accepted until 9/19/2025.

The annual salary for this position is between $ 75,000 - $92,000 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

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. Eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.