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Sr. DevOps Engineer
Cog*** · Teaneck, NJ, United States
Teaneck, NJ, United StatesExp: 10+ yrs75,000-135,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
$75,000.00–$135,000.00 annually + discretionary annual incentive program + medical/dental/vision/life insurance + paid holidays + paid time off + 401(k) plan and contributions + long-term/short-term disability + paid parental leave + employee stock purchase plan
Location
Teaneck, NJ, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
This role designs and automates secure, reusable enterprise CI/CD pipelines and modular Azure infrastructure to accelerate reliable, governed software delivery across the environment lifecycle. Responsibilities include building GitHub Actions workflows, automating deployment promotion and governance, authoring Azure Bicep templates, and developing PowerShell and Python automation for provisioning, validation, security, and operations.
Benefits
Medical/Dental/Vision/Life InsurancePaid holidays plus Paid Time Off401(k) plan and contributionsLong-term/Short-term DisabilityPaid Parental LeaveEmployee Stock Purchase PlanDiscretionary annual incentive program
Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional DevOps/CI/CD engineering experience and 10+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure architecture, implementation, security, automation, and operational experience.
- Advanced practical experience designing GitHub Actions pipelines, reusable workflows, composite actions, artifact strategies, environment promotion, and secure Azure integration.
- Strong Git/GitHub expertise, including branch protection, GitHub Rulesets, pull-request validation, required checks, quality gates, automated testing, and repository governance.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code expertise with Azure Bicep, including modular templates, parameters, reusable blueprints, linting, validation, and what-if analysis.
- Strong PowerShell and Python scripting skills with the ability to create production-quality, reusable, secure, maintainable, and documented automation.
- Deep understanding of Azure security and DevSecOps practices, including least privilege, RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, private connectivity, and automated security controls.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, permissions, configuration, deployment, and networking failures independently.
- Hands-on experience applying Azure networking and security best practices, including private endpoints, VNets, subnets, NSGs, DNS, peering, routing, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, collaboration, technical ownership, and an automation-first engineering mindset.
- Responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude AI.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and optimize reusable enterprise CI/CD pipelines, workflow templates, and composite actions using GitHub Actions.
- Automate secure deployments and promotion across development, integration, QA, UAT, staging, and production environments, including approvals, artifacts, secrets, and environment protections.
- Implement GitHub governance, branch protections, Rulesets, pull-request validation, required checks, reviewer controls, quality gates, and security scanning.
- Design and automate secure Azure environments using modular, parameterized Bicep templates, reusable modules, validation, linting, and what-if analysis.
- Develop maintainable PowerShell and Python automation for provisioning, validation, repository operations, security checks, reporting, diagnostics, and operational tooling.
Skills
AzureAzure Key VaultBicepGitGitHubGitHub ActionsPowerShellPythonVaultAzure MonitorIAM
Work schedule
3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office
Industry
Cloud & Infrastructure Services
Relocation
No