Senior .NET Backend Engineer - Azure DevOps & APIs

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 70,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan

Disability Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior .NET Developer to design and build scalable backend services, APIs, and components that support complex business workflows in a modern Azure-based environment.

You will collaborate with engineering and business stakeholders, maintain Azure DevOps pipelines, monitor logs and alerts, and mentor engineers on .NET practices while ensuring compliance with enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing scalable apps, backend services, and APIs with .NET Core/.NET Framework.
• Experience aligning solutions with enterprise architecture and maintainability standards.
• Experience using Azure DevOps to build and release pipelines.
• Experience monitoring Azure logs and configuring alerts.
• Experience supporting production deployments and troubleshooting release issues.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable application components using .NET Core and/or .NET Framework, focusing on long-term maintainability.
• Develop high-quality backend services and APIs to support complex business workflows and data processing.
• Build and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for build, deployment, and release activities.
• Participate in production release activities, including release-night support and troubleshooting.
• Monitor Azure logs, manage alerts, and configure new alerts as needed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure features reflect business rules and compliance.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers on .NET development practices and promote knowledge sharing.

Skills

.NET Core/.NET Framework

Azure DevOps

APIs design

Azure

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Tools

Azure Monitor

Release pipelines

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior .NET Developer to design and build scalable backend services, APIs, and components that support complex business workflows in a modern Azure-based environment.

You will collaborate with engineering and business stakeholders, maintain Azure DevOps pipelines, monitor logs and alerts, and mentor engineers on .NET practices while ensuring compliance with enterprise standards.