Senior AKS Engineer — Remote Cloud Platform Lead

Cognizant; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 113,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays plus PTO

Paid Time Off

Disability insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Azure Kubernetes Engineer to design, operate, and optimize AKS platforms supporting TriZetto QNXT workloads in healthcare payer environments. This remote role collaborates with QNXT, DevOps, Azure infrastructure, environment management, batch, and production support teams.

You will implement IaC with Terraform or Bicep, manage Kubernetes clusters, enforce security, monitor systems with Azure Monitor, and support .NET containerized apps and SQL Server connectivity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating Kubernetes platforms, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service, in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes operations, including cluster builds, node pool management, autoscaling, ingress, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Azure infrastructure services, including virtual networks, subnets, load balancers, identity, monitoring, and secure connectivity.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Experience supporting containerized enterprise applications or mission-critical production systems.
• Experience creating and managing Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments.
• Hands-on experience operating .NET / ASP.NET Core applications in containerized environments.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, including connectivity, performance, and high-availability considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and operate secure, scalable AKS clusters for QNXT workloads across non-production, production, and disaster recovery environments.
• Manage Kubernetes namespaces, node pools, ingress, workload placement, autoscaling, service networking, and platform reliability.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Bicep to support repeatable Azure environment builds.
• Enforce identity, access, and security controls using Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, and Kubernetes RBAC.
• Establish monitoring and observability using Azure Monitor, Container Insights, and Kubernetes metrics.
• Support AKS lifecycle management, including upgrades, release readiness, troubleshooting, and production stability.
• Deploy and operate containerized .NET applications and support Microsoft SQL Server connectivity, performance, and availability.

Skills

Kubernetes

Azure infrastructure

Security & IAM

Monitoring & observability

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Helm

ASP.NET Core

SQL Server

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Azure Kubernetes Engineer to design, operate, and optimize AKS platforms supporting TriZetto QNXT workloads in healthcare payer environments. This remote role collaborates with QNXT, DevOps, Azure infrastructure, environment management, batch, and production support teams.

You will implement IaC with Terraform or Bicep, manage Kubernetes clusters, enforce security, monitor systems with Azure Monitor, and support .NET containerized apps and SQL Server connectivity.