Senior Java & Azure Cloud Engineer (Remote)

Cognizant; Bismarck (ND); Remote; USD 93,000 - 109,000; 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 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 implement modern software that aligns with engineering standards.

This remote US role emphasizes hands-on development in Java/Spring Boot, Azure integrations, CI/CD, testing, and security-by-design, with mentorship of peers and proactive risk identification.

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

Cloud-native design

API development

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Azure

Observability

Mentoring

Tools

Azure

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 implement modern software that aligns with engineering standards.

This remote US role emphasizes hands-on development in Java/Spring Boot, Azure integrations, CI/CD, testing, and security-by-design, with mentorship of peers and proactive risk identification.