Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote

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.

Important Disclaimers:

**Please note: A few of our roles may require in-person interviews at Cognizant offices or client locations, depending on project or client needs.**

In this role, you will:

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.

Location: Dallas,TX Work model: Remote

We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the US. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

What you need to have to be considered:

8+ years of DevOps, cloud engineering, site reliability, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation experience in regulated environments
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.