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Salary
≈ $24k – $67k per year (Estimated)
Location
Remote (United Arab Emirates)
Seniority
Senior · 7+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 15, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 15, 2026. Cognizant scores B on the Alion truth index.
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Cognizant is an American information technology services and consulting company founded in 1994 as an in-house technology unit of Dun and Bradstreet in Chennai, India, and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey. It builds, integrates and operates software and infrastructure for large enterprises, with particularly deep positions in healthcare, financial services, insurance and life sciences, delivered by a global workforce of more than three hundred thousand people concentrated in India. Listed on Nasdaq, the company competes with the large Indian and global systems integrators and has reoriented its offerings around cloud migration, data platforms and AI-assisted engineering.
Backed by Peak XV Partners
Job Summary
Azure Platform Engineer
Mandatory Experience
- 7+ years Azure Platform Engineering experience
- 3+ years supporting production AKS environments
- Experience working in enterprise hub-spoke Azure Landing Zones
- Strong networking, API management, identity, and cloud security expertise
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BCG Platform Technology Stack
Edge & API Layer
- Azure Front Door
- Azure Application Gateway (WAF)
- Azure API Management (APIM)
- API routing and path-based routing
- SSL/TLS certificate management
- DNS configuration and troubleshooting
- API publishing and backend integrations
Required Knowledge
- Front Door → Application Gateway → APIM → AKS architecture
- Public ingress with private backend services
- Path-based routing configuration
- Health probes and backend pools
- APIM networking and private connectivity
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Mandatory Skills
- AKS Cluster Administration
- AKS Networking
- Ingress Controllers
- Internal Load Balancers
- Private AKS Clusters
- Node Pools
- Autoscaling
- Kubernetes Security
- Secrets Management
- Container Networking
Must understand:
- Internal LoadBalancer services
- Private endpoint exposure
- Backend API publishing through APIM
- Health endpoints
- Kubernetes troubleshooting
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Azure Networking
Mandatory Skills
- VNet Design
- Hub-Spoke Architecture
- VNet Peering
- Route Tables (UDR)
- NSG
- Azure Firewall
- Private DNS Zones
- Private Endpoints
- Service Endpoints
Expected Experience
- Working with enterprise hub VNets
- Connectivity through centralized firewall environments
- Shared services networking
- Routing validation and troubleshooting
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Azure Data Services
Databricks Platform
- Databricks Workspace Administration
- Unity Catalog
- Cluster Policies
- Secret Scopes
- Access Control Management
- Databricks Networking
- Delta Lake
- Databricks Monitoring
Azure Data Services
- Azure Data Factory (ADF)
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Event Hub
- Cosmos DB
- ADLS Gen2
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
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DevOps & CI/CD
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Enterprise
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Release Management
- Branching Strategies
- CI/CD Automation
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Governance & Operations
- Cost Management & Optimization
- Tagging Strategy
- Backup & Disaster Recovery
- High Availability Architecture
- Cloud Governance Framework
- Incident & Problem Management
- Production Support
Preferred Certifications
- AZ-104 Azure Administrator
- AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect
- AZ-400 Azure DevOps Engineer
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
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