AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Cognizant is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer with DevOps expertise to support AWS platform configuration, operations, and optimization activities as part of a Cloud Center of Excellence (COE). The role focuses on implementing approved architectures, operational baselines, and FinOps controls.

Responsibilities (All the listed items have to be done with guidance from AWS Enterprise Architect)

• Configure and enable AWS services in alignment with COE standards
• Implement IAM roles, policies, and identity integrations
• Implement networking setup for VPCs and central connectivity
• Set up logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, and encryption baselines using AWS native services
• Provision cloud infrastructure components using approved templates
• Implement and deploy pre-approved IaC modules
• Build and manage hardened AMIs for EC2 instances (Image management)
• Implement and provision catalog-based services
• Implement logging and monitoring configurations for EC2, S3 & RDS
• Support implementation of monitoring and alerting baseline and Initial operational runbooks for cloud services
• Implement integrations between ServiceNow and AWS Identity Center (for access management) & Control Tower AFT (account provisioning automation)
• Support service catalog and intake workflow integrations
• Support SRE practices including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Implement FinOps practices: tagging enforcement, budgets, dashboards, and cost optimization
• Assist with DR and resilience testing and documentation
• Documentation

Strong hands-on experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch), Terraform and Github actions

• Extensive experience working with Terraform and CI/CD
• Experience working as AWS Engineer in AWS Cloud environment
• Experience with monitoring, logging, backup, and security configurations
• Understanding of AWS cost management and FinOps practices
• Prior experience in documenting on Confluence
• Good communication and client stakeholder management skillset
• 5-8 years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as AWS Cloud Engineer