Senior .NET/Azure MongoDB API Engineer – Remote

Cognizant; Halifax Regional Municipality; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Cognizant in Canada is seeking a Senior Application Support & Development Engineer with 7+ years of experience to own development, production support, and cloud services across a large enterprise software landscape. You will design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs, ensuring secure coding standards and reliable performance.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, incident management, and collaboration across application, API, database, and deployment layers, with a remote setup

Qualifications

• 7+ years of overall experience in application development, maintenance, enhancement, and production support.
• Strong hands-on expertise in C#, .NET Framework, .NET Core / .NET 6+, ASP.NET Core, and RESTful Web APIs.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services, cloud-native application development, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Strong hands-on experience with MongoDB, including data modeling, schema design, aggregation pipelines, indexing, query optimization, and performance troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise applications in production environments.
• Experience managing incidents, service requests, defects, changes, and operational tickets through closure.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architecture.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, or Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Experience with PowerShell or other automation scripting.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and code-quality or security-scanning tools such as SonarQube.
• Experience in healthcare, insurance, or other large enterprise application environments.
• Relevant Microsoft Azure certification, such as Azure Developer Associate or Azure Administrator Associate.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise applications using C#, .NET Core / .NET 6+, ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, Azure services, and MongoDB.
• Build scalable backend services and APIs while following secure coding, performance, and maintainability standards.
• Maintain a support-first and customer-focused mindset while balancing development priorities.
• Provide production support and troubleshoot application, API, database, cloud, integration, and deployment issues.
• Respond effectively to production priorities and work within defined incident, change, release, and security processes.
• Take end-to-end ownership of incidents, service requests, defects, enhancements, and operational tasks.
• Perform root-cause analysis for recurring issues and implement corrective and preventive solutions.
• Develop and optimize MongoDB queries, aggregation pipelines, indexes, and data access patterns.
• Configure, deploy, monitor, and support workloads hosted on Microsoft Azure.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, release activities, and post-production validations using Azure DevOps and Git.
• Participate in Technology Lifecycle Management activities, including framework upgrades, package upgrades, patching, and platform modernization.
• Support vulnerability remediation, dependency upgrades, secure configuration, and compliance-related activities.
• Perform software installation, uninstallation, configuration, environment maintenance, and operational readiness activities as needed.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, support procedures, knowledge articles, release notes, and operational runbooks.

Job description

Cognizant in Canada is seeking a Senior Application Support & Development Engineer with 7+ years of experience to own development, production support, and cloud services across a large enterprise software landscape. You will design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs, ensuring secure coding standards and reliable performance.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, incident management, and collaboration across application, API, database, and deployment layers, with a remote setup