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Lead Azure Devops Engieer (Onsite)

Cognizant
Louisville, KY Full Time
POSTED ON 12/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/29/2026
Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Lead Azure Devops Engineer(Onsite) with experience developing and building high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. You will be part of a digital software team that works on high-demand applications. Our engineers have a passion for high-quality, reliable and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Cognizant Digital Engineering If you’re like us, you’ve got big ideas. At Cognizant, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights and experiences. 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 sustainable innovation.

Location: Louisville, Kentucky

Experience Required: 8 years

You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain cloud infrastructure on Azure and GCP
  • Build CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitOps, Jenkins, and ArgoCD
  • Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, OpenShift)
  • Implement security best practices with SonarQube and JFrog Artifactory
  • Manage feature deployments using LaunchDarkly
  • Develop automation scripts using PowerShell, Bash and Python
  • Leverage AI tools like Windsurf to build self-service tools
  • Ensure HIPAA and SOC2 compliance
  • Configure and optimize build agents
  • Troubleshoot infrastructure issues independently

Experience

  • 10 years in IT infrastructure and operations
  • 5 years hands-on DevOps experience
  • Healthcare or regulated environment experience preferred

Technical Skills

  • Cloud: Azure, GCP, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitOps, Jenkins, ArgoCD
  • Containers: Kubernetes, AKS, GKE, OpenShift
  • Security Tools: SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, LaunchDarkly
  • Operating Systems: Strong Linux/Unix administration
  • Scripting: PowerShell, Advanced Bash and Python
  • AI Tools: Experience with Windsurf or similar AI development tools
  • Monitoring: Experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability tools
  • Certifications: Cloud certifications (Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes) are a plus

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
  • Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) plan and contributions
  • Long-term/Short-term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Travel: 0-5%

Why Choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry-recognized, award-winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skillsets fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

If you love ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!

About Cognizant Digital Engineering

Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economy—and we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design.

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