Cognizant Is Hiring For AWS Cloud, Terraform, EKS, Gitlab

• Cognizant is hiring For AWS cloud, Terraform, EKS, Gitlab
• Company: Cognizant
• Job Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Experience Required: 5+ years
• Salary: 14L24L a year
• About Cognizant
• Cognizant is hiring for AWS cloud, Terraform, EKS, Gitlab who can join immediately
• Primary Skills:
• AWS cloud, Terraform, EKS, Gitlab
• Years of Exp: 5 Years to 8 Years
• Location: Bangalore & Chennai
• Shift timing: 2pm-12am
• JD:
• Primary Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform (modules, state management, CI/CD-driven applies)Manage EKS clusters - upgrades, node group configuration, autoscaling, add-ons, and IRSABuild and maintain VPC architectures - subnets, route tables, transit gateway attachments, security groups, NACLsTroubleshoot production infrastructure issues across networking, compute, and container orchestration layers

• Write clean, reusable Terraform modules following DRY principles
• Participate in infrastructure code reviews and maintain documentation
• Required Experience

3+ years managing AWS infrastructure in production (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, Route53, ALB/NLB)3+ years writing Terraform - modules, workspaces/state isolation, remote backends, provider configuration

Strong EKS experience - cluster lifecycle, networking (VPC-CNI, Calico), ingress controllers, Helm chart deployments, RBACAWS networking depth - multi-account VPC design, transit gateway, VPC peering, DNS resolution, flow logs, troubleshooting connectivityIAM fluency - roles, policies, trust relationships, service-linked roles, cross-account access

Comfortable working in a Kanban-style team with minimal ceremony

Nice to Have

GitLab CI/CD - pipeline authoring, managing self-hosted GitLab Runners (autoscaling, Docker executors)Experience with Kafka, Apache Pinot, or data platform infrastructureFamiliarity with cost optimization (reserved instances, savings plans, right-sizing)What You'll Work With

Terraform (our IaC standard)AWS (multi-account, multi-region)EKS / KubernetesGitLab (source control + CI/CD) .