Azure Platform Engineer: AKS, APIM & Hub-Spoke Networking

Cognizant; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Azure Platform Engineer to drive advanced Azure platform engineering initiatives in Dubai. You will manage AKS environments, implement hub-spoke landing zones, and strengthen security and networking practices across enterprise-scale deployments.

Responsibilities focus on design, implementation, and operational excellence for cloud-native workloads, with emphasis on API management, identity, and secure connectivity. Experience in production-grade Azure is essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years Azure Platform Engineering experience
• 3+ years supporting production AKS environments
• Experience working in enterprise hub-spoke Azure Landing Zones
• Strong networking, API management, identity, and cloud security expertise

Skills

Cloud Networking

Security best practices

Platform engineering

Azure fundamentals

Automation mindset

Education

AZ-104 Azure Administrator

AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect

AZ-400 Azure DevOps Engineer

CKA Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Tools

AKS Cluster Administration

AKS Networking

Ingress Controllers

Internal Load Balancers

Private AKS Clusters

Node Pools

Autoscaling

Kubernetes Security

Secrets Management

Container Networking

Azure Front Door

Azure Application Gateway

Azure API Management

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an Azure Platform Engineer to drive advanced Azure platform engineering initiatives in Dubai. You will manage AKS environments, implement hub-spoke landing zones, and strengthen security and networking practices across enterprise-scale deployments.

Responsibilities focus on design, implementation, and operational excellence for cloud-native workloads, with emphasis on API management, identity, and secure connectivity. Experience in production-grade Azure is essential.