Senior Java & Azure Cloud Engineer — Build Secure Apps

Cognizant; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Full Stack Java & Azure Engineer in the United States. You will design, build, and maintain cloud-native applications, collaborating with product, architecture, security, quality engineering, DevOps, and operations teams to enforce strong engineering practices.

You will develop Java/Spring Boot APIs, integrate with Azure services, and manage containerized workloads while enhancing CI/CD pipelines and implementing security-by-design principles across the stack.

Qualifications

• Senior full-stack Java and Azure engineer responsible for designing, building, testing and maintaining cloud-native apps.
• Experience delivering secure, scalable software following approved architecture and engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and support secure, reliable, and maintainable software aligned with architecture 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, quality controls, security checks, and repeatable deployment processes.
• Apply security-by-design practices across authentication, authorization, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
• Mentor engineers, provide actionable code-review feedback, and establish reusable patterns and development standards.
• Proactively identify technical risks and delivery roadblocks and collaborate with stakeholders to drive resolution.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Azure

CI/CD

Security by design

Code review

Mentoring

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Full Stack Java & Azure Engineer in the United States. You will design, build, and maintain cloud-native applications, collaborating with product, architecture, security, quality engineering, DevOps, and operations teams to enforce strong engineering practices.

You will develop Java/Spring Boot APIs, integrate with Azure services, and manage containerized workloads while enhancing CI/CD pipelines and implementing security-by-design principles across the stack.