DevOps Engineer at Cognizant in New York, New York

Job Description:

• Develop Automation platform for delivering and managing Cloud and On-Prem infrastructure including, OpenStack, AWS and physical servers


• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them


• Establish milestones for necessary contributions from departments and develop processes to facilitate their collaboration


• Support cloud and On-Prem servers including security configurations, patching, and troubleshooting.


• Develop scripts for automating client/server functions


• Monitor automated systems recovery solutions


• Assist other scrum team engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team


• Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, manpower and time necessary


• Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution


• Work closely with engineering professionals within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently


• Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve processes companywide


• Work alongside project management teams to successfully monitor progress and implementation of initiatives

Experience required:

• 3 - 5 years of DevOps experience


• 2 years hand-on experience on Cloud platforms – AWS or Azure


• Experience in large project implementation using: AWS EC2, ELB, S3, IAM, ECS etc.


• Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation


• Demonstrated project development and leadership skills


• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering


• Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures


• Experience working together with teams from several departments to facilitate the orderly execution of a proposed project plan


• Professional experience and a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications


• Professional work experience in team building and project organization