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Cognizant Infra. Technology Specialist in Stockholm,AB-Linnegatan87D, Sweden
What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world. At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful.
Role Summary
Own the DevSecOps platform for our international client’s Developer Platform and toolchain, with hands-on leadership across AWS & Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, security, and observability. This role combines technical depth with people leadership and stakeholder management to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable services.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Stakeholders
Lead a team of DevSecOps engineers (mentoring, backlog/priority, code reviews, standards).
Engage with delivery leadership, product owners, security, and infra teams; translate requirements, align roadmaps, and manage expectations.
Drive incident/post‑incident reviews, RCA, risk management, and proactive improvement plans.
Cloud & Platform Ops
Architect, implement, and maintain AWSinfrastructure (EKS, RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, EBS) and contribute to growing Azure workloads (AKS, IAM/Entra ID fundamentals, networking).
Operate Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) at scale: deployments, ingress, Helm, performance, cost & capacity.
Toolchain & CI/CD
Own the DevSecOps toolchain lifecycle: Artifactory, SonarQube, Fortify, Confluence, GitGuardian, Sonatype (deploy/upgrade, hardening, monitoring, DR).
Run self‑hosted agents on AWS for Azure DevOps Pipelines; extend CI/CD with GitHub(Actions, Advanced Security) and champion GitHub Copilot adoption & guardrails.
Security & Observability
Integrate security in pipelines (SAST/SCA/secret scanning), manage TLS certs and secrets.
Standardize Datadogdashboards/alerts/traces/logs; remove legacy Prometheus/Grafana.
Identity & Access
- Design secure access with LDAP, SAML, SCIM, Azure AD (Entra ID), SSO.
Reliability
- Define/execute backup & disaster recoverystrategies for critical apps.
Required skills
AWS (EKS, RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, EBS); Azure fundamentals (AKS, networking, identity).
Kubernetes operations (deployments, ingress, Helm).
CI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub (Actions); self‑hosted runners/agents on AWS.
DevSecOps tools: Artifactory, SonarQube, Fortify, Confluence.
Linux, Shell, Docker; TLS & secrets management.
Observability:Datadog.
Nice-to-have skills
IAM/Federation: LDAP, SAML, SCIM, Azure AD (Entra ID), SSO.
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (nice to have).
ITSM/ServiceNow, change/incident/problem processes.
Copilot enablement: patterns, prompts, policy & governance.
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.