Location: Halifax, Hybrid 4 times a week Cognizant is looking for an DevOps Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team.

About

Cognizant’s CIS Practice Cognizant’s CIS (Cognizant Infrastructure Services) Practice is a global leader in providing IT infrastructure services. We deliver innovative solutions to optimize and transform IT infrastructure, ensuring business agility and operational efficiency. Our services include cloud computing, data center management, network services, and cybersecurity. We focus on understanding client needs and delivering customized solutions to drive business success.

In This

Role, You Will Develop value-add services which integrate with the existing DevOps stack

Develop CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, TypeScript, Python, Groovy and Jenkins

Coach application teams on how to leverage DevOps offerings

Champion developer-experience and best practices in conjunction with DevOps to ensure no developer is left behind

Participate in new tool adoption, POC process and provide recommendations

Evolve DevOps services beyond current state for application teams What You Will Need To Succeed An engineer mindset, SDLC experience with production class delivery, strong analytical mindset, communication skills, and sense of ownership / drive

2+ years of development experience in one of the following languages: Java, Python, Javascript/TypeScript, C#, C/C++, Python





Experience with application and system design patterns

Experience with Docker or Kubernetes

Experience with Agile methodologies, SCRUM Nice-to-have Experience with Elastic Search and Kibana

Experience using DevOps, CI/CD tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, UrbanCodeDeploy

Experience with a public cloud technology, i.e. Azure, AWS

Experience building or supporting distributed applications We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is an onsite position based out of client location in Toronto, Ontario. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be transparent about role expectations.

Compensation: we are offering an annual compensation between $80,000 - $95,000 Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future. Applications for this position are reviewed by our recruitment team without the use of artificial intelligence screening tools.

📌 DevOps Platform Engineer (Halifax Regional Municipality)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Halifax Regional Municipality