Cognyte Hiring DevOps Automation Engineer in Pune, India - Hybrid Work, Competitive Salary, Career Growth

Cognyte is a global leader in investigative analytics software solutions, helping government and enterprise organizations in over 100 countries accelerate security investigations and prevent threats to national security, business continuity, and cybersecurity. For 30 years, Cognyte has been at the forefront of keeping up with evolving technological and criminal trends.

We are looking for an exceptional and passionate DevOps Automation Engineer - Junior to support our infrastructure DevOps team. This role involves manually validating internally developed infrastructure code in lab environments and automating test suites once stable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform manual testing of infrastructure-related code and features in lab environments
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test cases for stabilized features
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to validate integrations, deployments, and system behavior
• Troubleshoot, debug, and document issues across network, OS, and CI/CD components
• Contribute to improving test coverage, reliability, and automation efficiency

• 2-4 years' experience with Linux and multi-OS environments
• Scripting skills in Bash and Python
• Exposure to Kubernetes / OpenShift, containers (Docker/LXC), and configuration tools like Ansible
• Good understanding of networking: DNS, TCP, DHCP, Firewalls, VPNs
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins)

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of network security (IPsec, NAT, Layer 7 filtering, ACLs)
• Strong debugging skills and a detail-oriented, proactive mindset

Work Type: Hybrid | Full-time