Senior .NET/Azure Architect (On site)

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Senior .NET/Azure Architect to serve our diverse base of global clients. As a member of our team, you will build cutting edge, cloud-based software that powers modern business. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the “team”, drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions

Job Location: Washington – DC (On site)

Responsibilities:

• • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand workload requirements, performance expectations, and scalability needs.
  • 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. Optimize parallel processing, GPU utilization, and distributed computing.
  • Ensure efficient data movement and synchronization.
  • Design event-driven workflows that respond dynamically to triggers.
  • Leverage Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs.
  • Integrate security best practices into compute designs.
  • Implement access controls, encryption, and network segmentation.
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
  • Define monitoring metrics for compute resources. Set up alerts, logging, and diagnostics.
  • Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization.
  • In depth understanding of the business environment, its processes and complexities of the organization and apply the knowledge towards the proposed work program.
  • Design and validate solutions that are practical, flexible, resilient, scalable, reusable, and strategic.
  • Promote component-based development, emphasizing reusability and consistency.
  • Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion. Present, discuss, and walk through the merits of the solutions recommendations with a group of enterprise architects.
  • Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and standards, to improve the quality of the deliverables.

Required Qualifications

· 12+ 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.).

· Experience with frontend skills like Angular 2-18 & React JS

Certifications Required

· MS Azure Certified

The annual salary for this position is between $125,000 – 162,500 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 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

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Why Choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry-recognized, award-winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skillsets fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications in the newest technologies.

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