Senior DevOps Engineer

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 .

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business and IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions.

The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!

The Role

We are seeking DevOps Engineers to join our Consulting Practice. This not your ordinary DevOps role! We are looking for technically proficient leaders who have that "special sauce", who bring vision and grit, who can work directly with clients in the F100, driving to outcomes that years ago were not thought possible. This team is about using cutting-edge technology and best practices to drive the best type of business outcomes. We're looking for someone who can translate their technical knowledge into value for clients. We go beyond the technical framing and take it a step further to drive customer-focused results that are changing the world.

In this role, you'll have the support of a seasoned team who will support your ambitions. You'll have the chance to learn and to lead. You'll be a strategic thinker and you'll work directly with executives who are industry leaders in banking, digital, customer service, and sit across other industry segments. You'll get to work on a variety of engagements, which means that there is always an opportunity learn something new. The expectations are high but so is the level of teamwork that you can expect to have with your team. What we accomplish, we do together, and we are looking for the next member of this high-achieving team to come and add to our shared success.

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds create perspective and new ways of thinking. We are looking for someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft relevant solutions through true collaboration, passion, and teamwork. Sound like you? Join us!

Responsibilities

• Deliver business value to F200 Companies lead teams to outcomes that bring technology and business together to create tangible business value
• Interface directly with clients to define business and technology requirements
• Hands-on production deployment experience of AWS and/or Azure and/or GCP cloud-based solutions
• Provide training and development support to both internal and external stakeholders using your deep cloud experiences and lessons learned
• Provide technical "best practice" perspectives and architectural recommendations for cloud-based solutions based on client requirements
• Demonstrate technical feasibility of AWS/Azure/GCP solutions through proof-of-concepts and/or prototypes; being a subject matter expert and providing leadership to guide teams
• Support large-scale cloud migration programs from legacy technology ecosystems to AWS/GCP/Azure environments
• Work on short- and long-term engagements, for different clients (sometimes concurrently), and bring leadership and expertise where we have the highest need

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in hands-on software development in cloud-based environments
• 10+ years of experience architecting cloud-based solutions in the financial services industry, including defining cloud strategies and executing cloud migrations
• 10+ years of financial services technology industry experience
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally
• Ability to qualitatively and quantitatively assess both business and technology challenges
• Advanced understanding of enterprise architecture principles and/or familiarity with the TOGAF architecture framework
• Professional cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solution Architect, GCP Cloud Architect) preferred; equivalent work experience will also suffice
• Experience supporting enterprise-level technology strategy initiatives, preferably in a leading management consultancy or technology services provider environment or the desire to do so
• Hands-on experience with software development methodologies and programming languages such as Java, C, Python, and/or other languages
• Project management experience and/or experience leading small to mid-sized teams
• Experience in Agile development environments is preferred
• Ability to travel up to 50% (while 50% of travel is a requirement of the role, due to COVID-19, non-essential travel has been suspended until further notice)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience

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.)

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