Senior AKS Engineer (Azure) — Remote Healthcare

Maine Tech Hub; Augusta, Northern (ME, KY); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in Augusta, Maine is seeking a Senior Azure Kubernetes Engineer to design, operate, and optimize AKS platforms that support TriZetto QNXT workloads in healthcare payer environments. You will collaborate with QNXT products, DevOps, Azure infrastructure, environment management, batch, and production support teams.

This remote-friendly role offers flexibility and a healthy work-life balance. Requirements include 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience, strong IaC skills with Terraform

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes operations, upgrades, autoscaling, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Azure infrastructure services including VNETs, subnets, load balancers, identity and monitoring.
• Hands-on IaC experience with Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Experience supporting containerized enterprise applications.
• Experience creating and managing Helm charts.
• Hands-on experience operating .NET/ASP.NET Core in containers.
• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server connectivity and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and operate secure, scalable AKS clusters for QNXT workloads.
• Manage Kubernetes namespaces, node pools, ingress, autoscaling, and networking.
• Implement IaC using Terraform and/or Bicep to support repeatable Azure builds.
• Enforce identity, access, and security using Entra ID, managed identities, and RBAC.
• Establish monitoring with Azure Monitor, Container Insights, and Kubernetes metrics.
• Support AKS lifecycle management, upgrades, and production stability.
• Deploy and operate containerized .NET applications with SQL Server connectivity.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Azure infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code

Containerized apps

Helm charts

CI/CD

Monitoring & observability

Security controls

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Terraform

Bicep

Kubernetes

Helm

Microsoft SQL Server

.NET / ASP.NET Core

Azure Monitor

GitOps

Job description

Cognizant in Augusta, Maine is seeking a Senior Azure Kubernetes Engineer to design, operate, and optimize AKS platforms that support TriZetto QNXT workloads in healthcare payer environments. You will collaborate with QNXT products, DevOps, Azure infrastructure, environment management, batch, and production support teams.

This remote-friendly role offers flexibility and a healthy work-life balance. Requirements include 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience, strong IaC skills with Terraform