Remote Azure Cloud Engineer: API & Data Orchestration

Cognizant; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 69,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Paid parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer (Azure) to design and build cloud-native, API-driven solutions on Microsoft Azure, enabling secure data movement across enterprise systems. You'll collaborate with product owners, architects, and agile teams.

The role emphasizes API design, security, and full lifecycle management with Azure API Management, Azure AD, GraphQL, Java, and Spring technologies, plus CI/CD pipelines using Git and GitHub Actions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience architecting cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with API lifecycle management using Azure API Management.
• Security: authentication/authorization with Azure AD, mTLS, and API throttling.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and GraphQL API development.
• CI/CD tooling and Agile/Scrum experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop cloud-native, API-driven solutions on Azure.
• Own API lifecycle design, security, analytics, monitoring, and deprecation.
• Develop APIs using GraphQL, Java, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Boot.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Git and GitHub Actions while working in Agile/Scrum teams.

Skills

Azure

API lifecycle

API security

Java

GraphQL

CI/CD

REST APIs

Tools

Azure Functions

Azure Data Factory

Azure Storage

Azure API Management

Git

GitHub Actions

Job description

Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer (Azure) to design and build cloud-native, API-driven solutions on Microsoft Azure, enabling secure data movement across enterprise systems. You'll collaborate with product owners, architects, and agile teams.

The role emphasizes API design, security, and full lifecycle management with Azure API Management, Azure AD, GraphQL, Java, and Spring technologies, plus CI/CD pipelines using Git and GitHub Actions.