Remote Frontier Engineer — Cloud Migration & GenAI Pilot

Cognizant; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 91,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Frontier Engineer to pilot and migrate a cloud-native payment hub from Azure to AWS and GCP, using GenAI tools to accelerate delivery. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, QA, cloud and DevOps engineers, and clients.

Based in the United States, this remote role offers flexibility while focusing on delivering a pilot across cloud platforms with strong API and UI capabilities and a hands-on approach to CI/CD and database engineering.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Frontier Engineer with GenAI tools like Devin, Claude, Codex, and GitHub Copilot.
• Polyglot development expertise in Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong API development experience.
• Hands-on experience building user interfaces with Angular.
• Cloud development experience on AWS and/or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Utilize GenAI tools to migrate API and UI code from Azure to AWS and GCP platforms.
• Develop and enhance API and UI components using Java, Spring Boot, and Angular across cloud-native environments.
• Design and build cloud-native solutions on AWS and GCP, including CI/CD DevOps pipelines and database engineering.
• Apply GenAI tools to accelerate testing and QA activities across the migration effort.
• Collaborate as a polyglot engineer across development, QA, cloud engineering, and DB engineering workstreams to deliver the pilot.

Skills

GenAI tools usage

Java

Spring Boot

Angular

Cloud-native development

Tools

Devin

Claude

Codex

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Frontier Engineer to pilot and migrate a cloud-native payment hub from Azure to AWS and GCP, using GenAI tools to accelerate delivery. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, QA, cloud and DevOps engineers, and clients.

Based in the United States, this remote role offers flexibility while focusing on delivering a pilot across cloud platforms with strong API and UI capabilities and a hands-on approach to CI/CD and database engineering.