Senior DevOps Engineer with AWS at Cognizant
Charlotte, NC
$64,000–$117,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Charlotte, NC
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hybrid Senior DevOps/SRE engineer role at Cognizant, based in Charlotte, NC, supporting enterprise AWS environments. The position centers on designing cloud-native architectures, building CI/CD pipelines, implementing infrastructure-as-code, embedding DevSecOps practices, and establishing observability and SRE frameworks (SLOs, error budgets) across multiple programs. It also involves mentoring teams and guiding cost optimization on AWS.
Senior level · Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 330 people in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 95–490
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,909 (middle half $110,048–$168,680). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting lists required skills in broad, capability-level language rather than naming specific tools (e.g., no specific IaC tool such as Terraform or CloudFormation is named, no specific CI/CD platform such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions is named, no specific monitoring stack such as Datadog or Prometheus is named). All skills extracted reflect the concrete technical capabilities the JD gates on, even where a specific product is not called out.
The salary range of $64K–$117K is notably wide and on the lower end for a Senior DevOps/SRE role; this may reflect Cognizant's staffing/consulting pay bands rather than a direct-hire market rate.
The role is hybrid (3 days/week on-site) in Charlotte, NC — not fully remote.
No specific years of overall experience are stated; the JD uses qualitative language ('extensive,' 'deep practical expertise') without a numeric floor.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): code analysis.
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