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Job Description:

Looking for a seasoned and impact-driven Sr. DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience automating and optimizing cloud infrastructure across AWS, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the development of Ansible roles for Linux security hardening and Windows patching.

• Automate EC2 provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, achieve reduction in manual effort and migrated PowerShell-based services into Ansible Tower, cutting run failures.

• Built reusable Terraform modules to standardize VPC, EC2, and DNS provisioning across DR environments.

• Lead the Ansible-based automation of Linux nodes and develop hybrid-cloud provisioning workflows with Packer and Terraform to standardize and secure infrastructure baselines.

• Highly proficient in Terraform, Ansible, Python, and PowerShell, with extensive hands-on expertise across both Linux and Windows platforms.

• Strong background in designing and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and compliance enforcement in regulated enterprise environments.

• Championed the adoption of Terraform across engineering teams, significantly improving provisioning speed and consistency.

• Automated the deployment of monitoring agents via Ansible and shell scripts, increasing infrastructure visibility.

• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and CloudFormation.

• Built Python tools to generate weekly audit reports by aggregating compliance scanner output, supporting regulatory reporting workflows.

• Design multi-region Terraform modules for VPC, IAM, and EKS

• Develop Python scripts to validate compliance and enforce tagging standards during pipeline executions

• Migrate PowerShell-based Windows services to Ansible Tower

• Lead infrastructure automation for a security scanning platform rollout

• Orchestrate full-stack deployments using Ansible and Terraform

• Build reusable Terraform modules for VPC, security groups, EC2, and DNS zones, improving disaster recovery environment consistency.

• Automated Linux provisioning scripts for audit compliance checks, reducing the manual patching backlog

• Design cross-platform backup solutions using Ansible and native cloud SDKs

• Partner with security teams to deploy open-source scanners via IaC pipelines, ensuring alignment with company policies

• Automate multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, reducing provisioning cycle times

• Develop PowerShell and Bash scripts to enforce configuration policies across hybrid environments

• Create hardened AMI images for Linux and Windows using Packer and Ansible

• Write Terraform modules for GCP and AWS resource creation, standardizing access patterns and resource tagging.

• Deploy monitoring agents using Ansible and shell scripts

• Design Terraform templates for rapid cloud resource provisioning

Infrastructure Automation: Terraform (IaC), Ansible, CloudFormation

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP – EC2, VPC, AKS, GKE, Lambda, DNS

Scripting & Programming: Python, Bash, Shell, PowerShell

OS & Platforms: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL), Windows Server, Containers, Kubernetes

CI/CD & Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.