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DevOps Architect Engineer at Cognizant

Posted in Information Technology 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Dallas, Texas





Job Description:

Devops Architect:

Cognizant Digital Engineering

Our strength is our people, and our ability to work together. We pride ourselves on the talent we are able to attract to our organization. We not only hire the best, but continuously strive to provide our associates with opportunities to work with innovative solutions and technologies, with premier clients across the globe. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is encouraged to craft significant solutions through true collaboration.

Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for balanced innovation.

Job Summary:

Cognizant is looking for a driven leader with vision with experience in tailoring a customized product and solution for our clients. This individual will act as a trusted advisor and be responsible for providing an approach for the overall project. The role is encouraged to drive technology discussions and analyze the current landscape for gaps in addressing business needs. The individual in this role will review existing architecture and capabilities from technical perspective. Lastly, Cognizant needs a motivated individual to challenge the status quo and provide thought leadership/standard methodologies to improve our current services and technologies.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:


  • Design and develop future-ready digital solutions for customers across industry verticals

  • Create digital technology solution and program roadmap by collaborating with strategy and design consultants

  • Assess and Design IT architecture strategies for cloud and PaaS platforms

  • Supervise all production issues and inquiries and provide efficient resolution.

  • Evaluate all functional requirements and map documents and perform solve on all development processes.

  • Collaborate with application groups to prepare effective solutions for all programs.

  • Documents all technical specifications and associate project work you're doing.

  • Design all test cases to provide support to all systems and perform unit tests.

  • Collaborate with Cognizant internal partners, product vendors, other third-party service providers and the customer in the strategic design process to translate business needs into platform/custom solutions

  • Demonstrate technical expertise in modern Cognizant Digital Engineering and associated technologies, cloud platforms, data quality, governance and architecture

  • Develop and demonstrate proof of concepts

  • Lead technology consulting engagements, solution workshops and due diligence

  • Resolve availability and viability of third-party components and services as needed

  • Develop and design specifications for integration, products and technologies

  • Design quality control and test procedures to ensure the work meet established design and performance goals

  • Drive RFP creation, deliver on client requests and find opportunities in line with account strategies

  • Technology competency areas – Cloud Native, Microservices and APIs, Reactive Systems, Analytics & Streaming Pipelines, Devops – CI/CD

Position Responsibilities:


  • Provide solutions to implement continuous integration & continuous deployment solutions for large sized project.

  • Guide the team to tackle, build & deploy automation solutions.

  • Design/Implement release orchestration solutions for these large sized projects.

  • Perform pre-assessments to help the customer begin the DevOps journey.

  • Help in application onboarding to the defined target-operating model to achieve build & release automation.

  • Participate/Lead E2E DevOps small customer assessment.

  • Participate in large assessment for data assimilation.

  • Participate/Lead DevOps transformation for an enterprise customer.

  • Provide solutions for RFP's.

Position Qualifications:



  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field


  • Around 7+ years of experience in IT sector in build engineering and release management process, building and deploying applications by adopting DevOps practices such as Continuous development, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD ) in runtime with various tools like Azure ADO, Git, Maven,  Ansible, PowerShell, Docker, Kubernetes and Azure services. 

    Devops Architect:

    Cognizant Digital Engineering

    Our strength is our people, and our ability to work together. We pride ourselves on the talent we are able to attract to our organization. We not only hire the best, but continuously strive to provide our associates with opportunities to work with innovative solutions and technologies, with premier clients across the globe. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is encouraged to craft significant solutions through true collaboration.

    Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for balanced innovation.

    Job Summary:

    Cognizant is looking for a driven leader with vision with experience in tailoring a customized product and solution for our clients. This individual will act as a trusted advisor and be responsible for providing an approach for the overall project. The role is encouraged to drive technology discussions and analyze the current landscape for gaps in addressing business needs. The individual in this role will review existing architecture and capabilities from technical perspective. Lastly, Cognizant needs a motivated individual to challenge the status quo and provide thought leadership/standard methodologies to improve our current services and technologies.

    Day-to-Day Responsibilities:



  • Design and develop future-ready digital solutions for customers across industry verticals

  • Create digital technology solution and program roadmap by collaborating with strategy and design consultants

  • Assess and Design IT architecture strategies for cloud and PaaS platforms

  • Supervise all production issues and inquiries and provide efficient resolution.

  • Evaluate all functional requirements and map documents and perform solve on all development processes.

  • Collaborate with application groups to prepare effective solutions for all programs.

  • Documents all technical specifications and associate project work you're doing.

  • Design all test cases to provide support to all systems and perform unit tests.

  • Collaborate with Cognizant internal partners, product vendors, other third-party service providers and the customer in the strategic design process to translate business needs into platform/custom solutions

  • Demonstrate technical expertise in modern Cognizant Digital Engineering and associated technologies, cloud platforms, data quality, governance and architecture

  • Develop and demonstrate proof of concepts

  • Lead technology consulting engagements, solution workshops and due diligence

  • Resolve availability and viability of third-party components and services as needed

  • Develop and design specifications for integration, products and technologies

  • Design quality control and test procedures to ensure the work meet established design and performance goals

  • Drive RFP creation, deliver on client requests and find opportunities in line with account strategies

  • Technology competency areas – Cloud Native, Microservices and APIs, Reactive Systems, Analytics & Streaming Pipelines, Devops – CI/CD


  • Position Responsibilities:



  • Provide solutions to implement continuous integration & continuous deployment solutions for large sized project.

  • Guide the team to tackle, build & deploy automation solutions.

  • Design/Implement release orchestration solutions for these large sized projects.

  • Perform pre-assessments to help the customer begin the DevOps journey.

  • Help in application onboarding to the defined target-operating model to achieve build & release automation.

  • Participate/Lead E2E DevOps small customer assessment.

  • Participate in large assessment for data assimilation.

  • Participate/Lead DevOps transformation for an enterprise customer.

  • Provide solutions for RFP's.


  • Position Qualifications:




  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

  • Around 7+ years of experience in IT sector in build engineering and release management process, building and deploying applications by adopting DevOps practices such as Continuous development, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD ) in runtime with various tools like Azure ADO, Git, Maven,  Ansible, PowerShell, Docker, Kubernetes and Azure services. 




  • Proficient knowledge in implementing CICD platform using Azure DevOps tools.

  • Good knowledge in Azure Boards and dashboards, setting up Azure projects.

  • Independently able to setup Build and Release pipelines using Azure DevOps.

  • Ability to integrate and troubleshoot DevOps tools like Junit, Maven, SonarQube, Artifactory, Docker etc.

  • Good knowledge in GIT, Docker, and IDE is important.

  • Building Release pipelines using ADO, inline scripting using Powershell.

  • Good knowledge in Azure Cloud services like VMs, Storage, DB, Key Vault etc.

  • Good knowledge in containerization technologies, especially Kubernetes.

  • Good knowledge in scripting languages like PowerShell, YAML, Terraform, Python, Ansible is must

  • Application monitoring tools like ELK, Azure Log analytics, Prometheus and/or Dynatrace is must.

  • Experience in working with Docker container / Kubernetes is must.

  • Experience integrating testing tools and frameworks such as Protrator, Selenium Grid, SoapUI, Qtest, Cucumber, Saucelabs and others to the DevOps pipeline

  • Experience integrating security tools such as AquaSec, Xray, Fortify, WhiteHat, NexusIQ, AppScan etc.

  • Ability to document and train our IT & Engineering organizations on CI/CD standard methodologies

  • Working experience of Agile/SCRUM/Kanban techniques


  • Must have experience in working with azure database PaaS offerings like Azure Managed SQL and Cosmos Database.         

  • Major focus on Configuration, SCM, Build/Release Management, Infrastructure as a code (IAC) and as Azure DevOps operations Production and cross platform environments. Responsible for developing end-to-end automation for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and making it accessible to developers and ops in CI/CD pipelines. 

  • Experienced in working on DevOps /Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation Environment, Incident and Change Management) including various tools. 

  • Keep abreast of new technologies including new cloud platforms and services 

  • Responsible for receiving feedback from support teams and implementing fixes and enhancements for automated services. 

  • Documentation for all changes, upgrades, maintenance, and procedures. 

  • Proficient knowledge in implementing CICD platform using Azure DevOps tools.

  • Good knowledge in Azure Boards and dashboards, setting up Azure projects.

  • Independently able to setup Build and Release pipelines using Azure DevOps.

  • Ability to integrate and troubleshoot DevOps tools like Junit, Maven, SonarQube, Artifactory, Docker etc.

  • Good knowledge in GIT, Docker, and IDE is important.

  • Building Release pipelines using ADO, inline scripting using Powershell.

  • Good knowledge in Azure Cloud services like VMs, Storage, DB, Key Vault etc.

  • Good knowledge in containerization technologies, especially Kubernetes.

  • Good knowledge in scripting languages like PowerShell, YAML, Terraform, Python, Ansible is must

  • Application monitoring tools like ELK, Azure Log analytics, Prometheus and/or Dynatrace is must.

  • Experience in working with Docker container / Kubernetes is must.

  • Experience integrating testing tools and frameworks such as Protrator, Selenium Grid, SoapUI, Qtest, Cucumber, Saucelabs and others to the DevOps pipeline

  • Experience integrating security tools such as AquaSec, Xray, Fortify, WhiteHat, NexusIQ, AppScan etc.

  • Ability to document and train our IT & Engineering organizations on CI/CD standard methodologies

  • Working experience of Agile/SCRUM/Kanban techniques


  • Must have experience in working with azure database PaaS offerings like Azure Managed SQL and Cosmos Database.         

  • Major focus on Configuration, SCM, Build/Release Management, Infrastructure as a code (IAC) and as Azure DevOps operations Production and cross platform environments. Responsible for developing end-to-end automation for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and making it accessible to developers and ops in CI/CD pipelines. 

  • Experienced in working on DevOps /Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation Environment, Incident and Change Management) including various tools. 

  • Keep abreast of new technologies including new cloud platforms and services 

  • Responsible for receiving feedback from support teams and implementing fixes and enhancements for automated services. 

  • Documentation for all changes, upgrades, maintenance, and procedures. 

Position Qualifications:



  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

  • Around 7+ years of experience in IT sector in build engineering and release management process, building and deploying applications by adopting DevOps practices such as Continuous development, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD ) in runtime with various tools like Azure ADO, Git, Maven,  Ansible, PowerShell, Docker, Kubernetes and Azure services. 


  • Proficient knowledge in implementing CICD platform using Azure DevOps tools.

  • Good knowledge in Azure Boards and dashboards, setting up Azure projects.

  • Independently able to setup Build and Release pipelines using Azure DevOps.

  • Ability to integrate and troubleshoot DevOps tools like Junit, Maven, SonarQube, Artifactory, Docker etc.

  • Good knowledge in GIT, Docker, and IDE is important.

  • Building Release pipelines using ADO, inline scripting using Powershell.

  • Good knowledge in Azure Cloud services like VMs, Storage, DB, Key Vault etc.

  • Good knowledge in containerization technologies, especially Kubernetes.

  • Good knowledge in scripting languages like PowerShell, YAML, Terraform, Python, Ansible is must

  • Application monitoring tools like ELK, Azure Log analytics, Prometheus and/or Dynatrace is must.

  • Experience in working with Docker container / Kubernetes is must.

  • Experience integrating testing tools and frameworks such as Protrator, Selenium Grid, SoapUI, Qtest, Cucumber, Saucelabs and others to the DevOps pipeline

  • Experience integrating security tools such as AquaSec, Xray, Fortify, WhiteHat, NexusIQ, AppScan etc.

  • Ability to document and train our IT & Engineering organizations on CI/CD standard methodologies

  • Working experience of Agile/SCRUM/Kanban techniques


  • Must have experience in working with azure database PaaS offerings like Azure Managed SQL and Cosmos Database.         

  • Major focus on Configuration, SCM, Build/Release Management, Infrastructure as a code (IAC) and as Azure DevOps operations Production and cross platform environments. Responsible for developing end-to-end automation for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and making it accessible to developers and ops in CI/CD pipelines. 

  • Experienced in working on DevOps /Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation Environment, Incident and Change Management) including various tools. 

  • Keep abreast of new technologies including new cloud platforms and services 

  • Responsible for receiving feedback from support teams and implementing fixes and enhancements for automated services. 

  • Documentation for all changes, upgrades, maintenance, and procedures. 





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