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You will be a valued member of the Digital Engineering team and work collaboratively with developers, QA, cloud and DevOps engineers, and clients.\nIn this role, you will\nUtilize GenAI tools such as Devin, Claude, Codex, and GitHub Copilot to implement the changes required to migrate API and UI code from Azure to AWS and GCP platforms.\n\nDevelop and enhance API and UI components using Java, Spring Boot, and Angular across cloud-native environments.\n\nDesign and build cloud-native solutions on AWS and GCP, including CI/CD DevOps pipelines and database engineering.\n\nApply GenAI tools to accelerate testing and QA activities across the migration effort.\n\nCollaborate as a polyglot engineer across development, QA, cloud engineering, and DB engineering workstreams to deliver the pilot.\n\nWork model\nAt Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. 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