Remote Senior Java & Azure Cloud Engineer

Cognizant; Earth City (MO); Remote; USD 93,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Full Stack Java & Azure Engineer to design and deliver secure, scalable cloud-native applications. You will collaborate with product, architecture, security, QE, DevOps, and operations teams to build modern software and enforce strong engineering practices.

This remote role is open to qualified applicants in the United States, with a base annual salary range of $93,000 to $109,000, plus Cognizant's discretionary incentives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with strong full-stack development experience across modern web applications, APIs, data stores, and distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, API development, and cloud-native application design.
• Experience designing secure, maintainable, and testable software using object-oriented principles, design patterns, and API-first approaches.
• Experience building cloud-native, containerized, and event-driven solutions, including asynchronous integrations.
• Strong DevSecOps experience across CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, dependency and security scanning, source control, and deployment controls.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, infrastructure as code, cloud configuration, secrets management, and environment promotion strategies.
• Strong troubleshooting and observability skills across applications, integrations, data, pipelines, and cloud platforms.
• Ability to provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate effectively across product, architecture, security, QE, DevOps, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and support secure, reliable, and maintainable software aligned with approved architecture and engineering standards.
• Develop Java/Spring Boot APIs, modern web and PWA capabilities, Azure integrations, data-access components, and containerized workloads.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and quality controls, security checks, branch protections, and repeatable deployment processes.
• Apply security-by-design practices across authentication, authorization, secrets management, sensitive data, dependencies, logging, and least-privilege access.
• Mentor engineers, provide actionable code-review feedback, and establish reusable engineering patterns and development standards.
• Proactively identify technical risks and delivery roadblocks and collaborate with stakeholders to drive resolution.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

API development

Azure

DevSecOps

CI/CD

observability

mentoring

team collaboration

cloud-native

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Full Stack Java & Azure Engineer to design and deliver secure, scalable cloud-native applications. You will collaborate with product, architecture, security, QE, DevOps, and operations teams to build modern software and enforce strong engineering practices.

This remote role is open to qualified applicants in the United States, with a base annual salary range of $93,000 to $109,000, plus Cognizant's discretionary incentives.