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You will be a valued member of the DevOps Engineering team within Cloud & Infrastructure Services and work collaboratively with DevOps leads, engineers, architects, QA, product, security, infrastructure, and networking teams.\nIn this role, you will\nDesign, develop, maintain, and optimize reusable enterprise CI/CD pipelines, workflow templates, and composite actions using GitHub Actions.\n\nAutomate secure deployments and promotion across development, integration, QA, UAT, staging, and production environments, including approvals, artifacts, secrets, and environment protections.\n\nImplement GitHub governance, branch protections, Rulesets, pull-request validation, required checks, reviewer controls, quality gates, and security scanning.\n\nDesign and automate secure Azure environments using modular, parameterized Bicep templates, reusable modules, validation, linting, and what-if analysis.\n\nDevelop maintainable PowerShell and Python automation for provisioning, validation, repository operations, security checks, reporting, diagnostics, and operational tooling.\n\nWork model\nAt Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. 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