Devops Engineer - Cognizant

Job Description

As we launch new products, your role will be to ensure that the future of public service is not just functional, but delightful to use.

• Manage the development of the internal engineering productivity tools and environments.
• Providing DevOps architecture implementation and operational support
• Architecture and planning for cloud deployments (Private and Public cloud);
• Be an innovative and hands-on DevOps engineer capable of looking at both the technology

• Future-proofing the technical environments and ensuring extremely high levels of

• Manage the development of the internal engineering productivity tools and environments.
• Manage processes, automation, best practices, documentation.
• Development and operation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Monitoring automation to effectively detect/predict/prevent issues in the environment and code base.
• Ability to conduct research into software issues and products as required
• Working with the latest tools and techniques
• Hands-on coding and mentoring, usually in a pair programming environment
• Working in highly collaborative teams and building quality environments.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure, fast paced, global environment
• Knowledge in lots of different open-source technologies and configurations.

• Strong knowledge and experience in Devops automation, containerisation and orchestration using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and Docker
• Strong scripting skills e.g. Python, Bash, JavaScript
• Cloud computing deployment and management experience - AWS
• Understand/practice Agile projects
• Strong understanding of networking

• Experience with highly scalable distributed systems
• Breadth of knowledge - OS, networking, distributed computing, cloud computing.