Senior Cloud Developer
$90,000 - $120,000/Yr
Cognizant Technology Solutions - Louisville, KY
posted about 2 months ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Remote - Louisville, KY
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
Cognizant is seeking a Senior Cloud Developer for a full-time remote opportunity. The role involves building, deploying, and maintaining cloud resources within Azure, with a focus on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). The candidate will work on networking principles, automated deployments, and continuous cost optimization while managing security and performance monitoring tools.
Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and maintain multiple IaaS and PaaS resources within Azure Cloud.
- Create and configure networking principles and protocols such as Network Security Groups, Virtual Networks, Private Endpoints, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, and Traffic Managers, and maintain Firewalls.
- Automate deployment of resources in Azure through CI/CD pipelines and tools like Git and Azure DevOps.
- Deploy public cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform and ARM.
- Manage PKI/SSL certificates and automate the renewal; secret management in Hashicorp Vault.
- Administer and maintain Linux servers.
- Install and manage various security and performance monitoring tools: Crowd Strike, Dynatrace, Splunk, and others.
- Continuously optimize costs by monitoring and analyzing the usage of public cloud resources and scaling them appropriately without impacting performance.
- Plan and prepare for the containerization of applications and services using Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, and ACI.
Requirements
- 6 to 8 years of experience with Azure Cloud Infrastructure.
- 6 years of experience with Azure Network Administration.
- 6 years of experience with Azure ARM.
- 6 years of experience with Azure CI/CD pipelines.
Benefits
- 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
