Senior .NET Backend Engineer (Azure Cloud Focus)

SwankTek Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SwankTek Inc. is seeking a Senior .NET Backend Engineer with a strong Azure focus to own the design and delivery of cloud-native services in a hybrid Atlanta environment.

You will drive architecture decisions, implement robust microservices, and lead production support across multiple environments. The role emphasizes AKS, Azure DevOps, observability, security, and scalable data handling, with a hands-on approach to mentoring engineers and partnering with business, architecture, and platform

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with C#, .NET Core and cloud-native Azure apps.
• Deep hands-on experience with AKS, Azure SQL Database, Terraform and CI/CD tooling.
• Proven ability to design, develop and operate distributed microservices at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own backend architecture, design and implement scalable microservices.
• Develop and operate cloud-native solutions on Azure with AKS and DevOps pipelines.
• Ensure security, observability and performance across production systems.

Skills

C#

.NET Core

Cloud-native architectures

Hybrid work style

Tools

Azure

AKS

Azure SQL Database

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Title : Senior .NET Backend Engineer (Azure Cloud Focus)

Location : Atlanta (Hybrid)

Required Experience

10+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in C#, .NET Core, and .NET 8/10+. Deep hands‑on experience designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure.

Strong Experience With Azure Services Including

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Storage
• Azure Functions
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Monitor / Application Insights
• Azure API Management
• Azure SQL Database
• Proven experience building scalable, distributed microservices architectures (not monolithic applications)
• Strong understanding of cloud-native and event-driven architectures
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting applications in AKS/Kubernetes
• Hands‑on experience with Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates
• Strong understanding of Azure networking, identity, security, and private connectivity concepts
• Experience working in hybrid cloud and on‑premises environments
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
• Experience automating build, deployment, testing, and release processes
• Strong API design, backend architecture, and service integration skills
• Solid experience with SQL Server, Azure SQL, data modeling, and performance tuning
• Strong understanding of resiliency patterns including retries, circuit breakers, failover, and fault tolerance
• Experience supporting high‑volume, transaction‑intensive distributed systems
• Strong production support and troubleshooting skills across multiple environments
• Experience implementing security best practices including OAuth, JWT, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and secrets management

Preferred Experience

• Hands‑on Kafka experience including producer/consumer design, retries, dead‑letter queues, and event troubleshooting
• Experience with distributed tracing and observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Experience designing schemas for event‑driven systems, including idempotency, ordering, and schema evolution
• Experience with performance engineering, scalability testing, and bottleneck analysis
• Experience leading technical design sessions and mentoring engineers
• Experience modernizing legacy applications and migrating workloads to Azure

What We're Looking For

• Senior engineer who can independently own solutions from architecture through production support
• Strong Azure practitioner, not just someone familiar with Azure concepts
• Comfortable making architecture decisions, troubleshooting complex production issues, and driving cloud modernization initiatives
• Able to work closely with business, architecture, and platform teams while maintaining hands‑on development responsibilities

Key emphasis:

This role requires a developer with strong real‑world Azure implementation experience, particularly with AKS, Azure DevOps, cloud‑native microservices, observability, security, and production support, not just .NET development experience.