Cognizant is seeking a Azure Cloud Solutions Architectskill for a full time opportunity in Santa Jose, CA.

Applications will be accepted until 04/30/2024

Job Description: Azure Cloud Solutions Architect
Position Summary:
We seek an experienced Azure Cloud Solutions Architect to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in Azure Cloud Services, including but not limited to VM, AKS, Service Bus, Storage, Load Balancer, and Web Apps. This role requires a deep understanding of authentication, authorization, OpenAI, OAuth, identity federation, and delegated flow. The candidate will design and implement cloud-native applications, headless APIs, and event-driven architectures that leverage Azure's cloud environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and implement solutions using Azure Cloud Services such as VM, AKS, Service Bus, Storage, Load Balancer, and Web Apps.
Have a deep understanding of authentication and authorization mechanisms, including OAuth, OpenAI, identity federation, and delegated flows.
Design and manage CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment.
Build cloud-native applications leveraging Azure cloud services to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
Design headless APIs that enable seamless interactions between various services and applications.
Developed event-driven and messaging-based applications, ensuring high performance and scalability.
Orchestrate different services to build comprehensive processes that meet business requirements.
Designed and implemented connectors to call external and internal APIs, facilitating smooth data exchange.
Create common APIs to interface with different providers, ensuring interoperability and flexibility.
Utilize the Microsoft Graph API for integrating Microsoft cloud services and devices into custom applications.
Design solutions for building robust and scalable APIs using technologies such as WebAPI and Spring Boot.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Proven experience with Azure Cloud Services (VM, AKS, Service Bus, Storage, Load Balancer, Web Apps, etc.).
Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, OpenAI, OAuth, identity federation, and delegated flow.
Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment.
Demonstrated ability to build cloud-native applications using Azure cloud services.
Proficient in designing headless APIs, event-driven and messaging-based applications.
Expertise in orchestrating services to build processes and designing connectors for API calls.
Experience with Microsoft Graph API.
Familiarity with API development using WebAPI, Spring Boot, or similar technologies.
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and team collaboration skills.
This is the key information:
Azure
Azure Cloud Services (VM, AKS, Service Bus, Storage, Load Balancer, Web Apps, etc.)
Experience designing and managing CI/CD infrastructure and application deployment pipelines.
Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, OpenAI, OAuth, identity federation, and delegated flow
Building Microservices using Spring Boot, ASP.NET Core Web API
Databases: Postgres, NoSQL databases
Strong understanding of Pub-sub, event-driven/ messaging architecture
Orchestration & Choreography
Have built cloud-native applications using Azure cloud services

The annual salary for this position is between $130000 - $140000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefitsfor this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• 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

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.