.NET Azure FSE Architect (Onsite)
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our constantly evolving world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
About Cognizant’s Digital Engineering Practice:
At Cognizant Digital Engineering, a small multi-functional team comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, UI/UX designers and Big Data analysts builds higher quality software faster siloed individuals working independently. Small, forward-thinking engineering teams generate collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality work you're doing. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies.
Location: Washington, DC.
Work Authorization
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
The Role:
The Azure Architect shall specialize in computing workload design. Primary focus will be on creating robust and efficient solutions for compute-intensive workloads within the Azure cloud environment involving architecture design, resource allocation, high-performance computing, serverless and event-driven architecture, security and compliance, monitoring, and solving. Designing micro front-end patterns, ensuring seamless integration across components and services. Technical architect will bebringing to bearg React and related libraries (e.g., Redux, Flux, Webpack) for efficient UI development. Prior experience working as a solution architect involving Azure cloud is a must. The person must have good domain knowledge with Loan/Lending process.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Collaborate with partners to understand workload requirements, performance expectations, and scalability needs.
- Design compute architectures that optimize resource utilization, minimize latency, and enhance overall system performance.
- Consider factors such as virtual machines (VMs), containers, serverless computing, and batch processing.
- Determine the appropriate compute resources (VM sizes, instance types, etc.) based on workload characteristics.
- Balance cost-effectiveness with performance requirements.
- Implement auto-scaling strategies to handle varying workloads.
- Be capable of designing for High availability and fault tolerance.
- Leverage Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs.
Required qualifications
- About 15+ years of experience in architecting/designing compute-intensive solutions with Azure.
- Preferable certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Proven track record of developing Azure architecture for large-scale, production-grade applications.
- In-depth knowledge of .Net frameworks & Azure compute services (VMs, Azure Web-Apps, App Services, Logic Apps Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Batch, etc.).
- Good to have frontend skills like Angular 2-18 & React JS
- Familiarity with orchestration tools (Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, etc.).
- Good Domain knowledge with Loan/Lending process
- Understanding of hybrid cloud scenarios
Applications will be accepted until July 15 2024.
The annual salary for this position is between $95,500 – $171,300 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
- This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for 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.
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