DevSecOps Engineer at Cognizant
Pierre, SD
$100,000–$155,000from the description
Jul 7, 2026
Pierre, SD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure and security engineering role centered on building and maintaining reusable Terraform modules, managing HCP Terraform workspaces with VCS-driven workflows, and constructing secure CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions. The work spans AWS resource provisioning with least-privilege access, secrets management via HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager, and security reviews of infrastructure code. Suits an experienced practitioner comfortable integrating AI coding assistants under a human-review-first discipline.
Senior level · 12+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,300–20,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 (7)
The posting states 12+ years of overall experience in the title/summary, but the 'Must Have' section gates on only 5+ years of Terraform specifically — no other per-technology year counts are given. The overall years minimum is set to 12 per the headline requirement.
No work location or metro area is specified; the role appears to be remote based on the absence of any office requirement and the nature of the responsibilities.
The 'AI coding assistants' skill names Amazon Q, Kiro, and GitHub Copilot as examples; it is listed under 'Must Have' and requires demonstrated hands-on experience plus a clear philosophy around human-in-the-loop practices.
'Infrastructure testing tools' appears under 'Nice to Have' with no specific tool named — it is marked preferred and no alternatives are populated since no canonical tool is identified.
The posting explicitly states no visa transfer or sponsorship is available now or in the future.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but has a strong infrastructure operations and security posture flavor that could also fit 15-1244. The primary deliverable — authoring reusable IaC modules and pipelines — tips the classification to 15-1252.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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