Cognizant

Senior DevOps & AI Platform Engineer (GCP) - REMOTE

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Tempe, AZ, USASenior
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Base Salary

$63k - $99k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI applications, APIs, cloud services, and model deployment workflows on Google Cloud Platform.
  • Design, implement, and manage Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code solutions.
  • Establish deployment pipelines and environment management across development, QA, staging, and production.
  • Support the deployment and operationalization of AI and generative AI solutions using Vertex AI and Gemini.
  • Implement monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards.
  • Partner with security teams on IAM controls, networking security, secrets management, and governance.
  • Enable automated testing, release management, deployment validation, rollback procedures, and production support.
  • Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, engineering productivity, and cloud cost optimization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline.
  • At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering.
  • Strong hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience and proven enterprise cloud CI/CD experience.
  • Extensive Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
  • Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes experience, with Google Kubernetes Engine preferred.
  • Experience implementing cloud monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting solutions.
  • Understanding of IAM, networking, cloud security, and secrets management.
  • Experience supporting highly available production environments.
  • Strong troubleshooting, automation, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
  • Preferred experience with AI/ML workloads, Vertex AI, Gemini, MLOps, LLMOps, AI application deployment pipelines, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins, ArgoCD, FinOps, and SRE practices.
  • Preferred Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect, or Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification.

Benefits

  • Fully remote within the United States, subject to possible changes based on project, client, or business requirements.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • Paid holidays and paid time off.
  • 401(k) plan with company contributions.
  • Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Education assistance, flexible spending accounts, and health savings account.
  • Commuter benefits, family building benefits, adoption assistance, and wellness programs.

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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.

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