3 days ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Airflow workflows, Python services, and Snowflake objects across hybrid environments.
- Implement and optimize Airflow orchestration for complex scheduled and event-driven data pipelines with observability, logging, and alerting.
- Build Python tools and microservices for data ingestion, transformation, and operational automation.
- Configure and administer Snowflake warehouses, databases, schemas, resource utilization, and secure data access.
- Develop infrastructure as code to provision and update cloud and on-premise resources consistently.
- Monitor orchestration, compute, storage, and data layers; identify performance and capacity issues; and drive remediation.
- Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, and application teams on deployment patterns and operational runbooks.
- Apply secure configuration practices, secrets management, and governance controls across pipelines and data platforms.
- Troubleshoot production issues during day-shift operations and document durable fixes.
- Optimize hybrid infrastructure costs and performance through scheduling, warehouse sizing, and resource allocation.
- Document deployment procedures, environment configurations, and support workflows.
- Evaluate DevOps tooling and automation opportunities and coordinate release plans with stakeholders.
Requirements
- Six to ten years of experience in DevOps engineering or related hands-on work.
- Strong hands-on experience with Airflow configuration, DAG design, and production data pipeline optimization.
- Advanced Python development skills, including packaging, dependency management, and testing practices.
- Practical Snowflake administration experience involving resource monitoring, role-based access control, and performance tuning.
- Solid experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and environment automation.
- Understanding of content and knowledge management concepts including metadata, taxonomy, and search-driven scenarios.
- Familiarity with hybrid work models and remote collaboration tooling.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills for diagnosing pipeline, infrastructure, and data issues.
- Preferred certifications include SnowPro Core, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, or similar DevOps-focused credentials.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with day-shift operations and no travel requirements.
- Coordination of change windows and release plans is required to avoid disruption to business services.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Cognizant
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.