Lead DevOps Architect
About Us
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.
About Cognizant’s Digital Engineering Practice:
At Cognizant Digital Engineering, small cross functional teams comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, DevOps Engineers and a Big Data analyst build higher quality software faster than siloed individuals working independently. Small, nimble engineering teams builds collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality deliverables. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies.
Responsibilities:
• Assess and Analyze application / technology platform, current state and process.
• Develop the CI/ CD & DevOps phase-wise implementation roadmap along with the Tools identification. • Develop Architecture and Framework as necessary or leverage existing framework for serverless, cloud delivery, develop and Implement DevOps (CI/ CD ) best practices and pipeline.
• Develop innovative approaches on development optimization & automation to ensure timely delivery and enhanced speed to market.
• Integrate and adhere with the defined development and delivery process/ Change Management, SLA Compliance, productivity and other application goals.
• Utilize your collaborative skills to work with business partners, IT managers/staff, to develop Continuous Integration and Delivery incorporating Code Quality, Test automation, API automation, etc.
• Serve as a thought leader, Change Agent, consultant and implementor within Agile teams providing direction to scrum team members.
• Implement
• Demonstrate value and enable adoption of Unit Testing, Feature level automated tests, API and Service level automation
Qualifications:
• Demonstrated Experience in Implementing DevOps CI (continuous integration ) and CD (continuous delivery) using Various tools
• 3+ years experience implementing CI/CD pipeline / tool chain and building CI/CD solutions
• 5+ years’ experience working with Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab, GitHub and hands on experience with integration the tools.
• Knowledge and experience in various cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, Openstack, Google Cloud and Micro services implementation
• Knowledge and working experience in Containers and Container Orchestration such as Docker,Kubernetes,ECS,EKS etc..
• Experience in setting up and administering tools used in the Dev Ops practice and knowledge of best practices
• Proven experience in Cloud Automation
• Hands-on experience working with Hashicorp Terraform to implement Infrastructure as code
• Experience with AWS serverless technologies like Lambda, ECS etc…
• 3+ years of hands on experience in different scripting languages like Groovy, Python, Shell Scripting etc..
• Experience with Static Code Quality and Application security, Code vulnerabilities using tool such as Snyk, SonarQube, Black Duck, AWS Inspector etc.
• Familiar with different industry standard tools such as JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, JMeter, Bamboo, Cucumber, Maven, etc.
• Hands-on experience working in a true Agile environment.
• Interested in learning and applying new technologies and concepts and stays up-to-date with technology tools and trends in the industry.
• Possess a positive, can-do attitude and enjoys making a difference in the business through your technical contributions
• Ability to think creatively, stimulate new ideas and challenge existing thinking.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate technology topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Mortgage Industry Experience would be a plus Educational Requirements:
Work Authorization:
· Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $[52,000 – 161,900] 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.
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
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Keywords:
· DevOps
· AWS
· Azure
· Cloud
· Unix
· Windows
· Kubernetes
· Jenkins
· CI/CD
· Docker
· Containerization
· Scripting
· Terraforma
· Bitbucket
· Puppet
· Chef
