DevOps Engineer (Hybrid) at Cognizant
Louisville, KY
$68,422–$114,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
Louisville, KY
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hybrid DevOps role focused on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud infrastructure through tools like Terraform, and supporting containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes. The position also involves production incident response, security integration within deployment pipelines, and ongoing platform hardening. It suits engineers with at least five years of hands-on cloud and infrastructure automation experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 25 people in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15–40
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 $112,695 (middle half $95,239–$138,357). 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 (8)
The SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: this role writes and ships CI/CD pipelines and IaC code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a significant operational/incident-response and platform-administration component (pointing to 15-1244). 15-1252 was chosen because building and maintaining pipelines and IaC automation is the primary deliverable.
The cloud platform requirement lists AWS, Azure, and GCP as interchangeable options ('such as'); AWS is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell) appear under the 'These will help you stand out' section and are treated as preferred. Python is listed as the primary with Bash and PowerShell as alternatives since the posting frames them as interchangeable options.
GitOps appears under the preferred/nice-to-have section ('These will help you stand out').
Monitoring/logging/observability is listed as a required understanding but no specific tool is named, so it is captured generically as 'monitoring'.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
The role is hybrid (up to 3 days/week on-site in Louisville, KY) — not fully remote.
No employer sponsorship is available now or in the future.
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