Jobs / Cognizant
Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer
Cognizant · Toronto, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, CanadaExp: 6+ yrs90,000-105,000 CAD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
90,000-105,000 CAD/yearly
Location
Toronto, ON, Canada
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Job summary
As a Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer, you will build and support reliable Azure cloud platforms for business-critical insurance systems. You will contribute to cloud modernization, improve automation, strengthen platform reliability, and help teams deliver scalable solutions. This role involves collaborating with various teams to design, deploy, automate, and support secure, resilient, and scalable Azure cloud environments.
Benefits
Discretionary annual performance-based bonusPhysical wellbeing benefitsMental wellbeing benefitsFinancial wellbeing benefitsWellbeing programs
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience with Azure Kubernetes Service and cloud-native platform operations in enterprise or production environments.
- Experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud provisioning.
- Proficiency with platform support, monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting tools.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools, release automation, and source control platforms such as GitHub.
- Knowledge of cloud security, access controls, compliance, and governance practices.
- Ability to collaborate with technical and business teams across application, infrastructure, and security functions.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to support business-critical production environments.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms (preferred).
- Knowledge of high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery practices (preferred).
- Experience with scripting or automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar tools (preferred).
- Familiarity with cloud cost optimization and performance tuning (preferred).
- Experience in insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and support cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, and Azure Kubernetes Service.
- Deploy and maintain Azure cloud resources with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, and availability.
- Use Terraform to build repeatable Infrastructure as Code solutions and improve cloud deployment processes.
- Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams to integrate cloud services with existing insurance platforms.
- Apply cloud security, governance, and compliance practices to help protect sensitive business and customer data.
- Monitor cloud platform health, infrastructure performance, and resource utilization to support stable and cost-effective operations.
- Build and enhance automation scripts, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes to reduce manual effort.
- Troubleshoot complex cloud platform issues and help minimize service disruption.
- Support cloud assessments, audits, resiliency reviews, and risk mitigation activities.
- Contribute to disaster recovery planning, platform improvements, and ongoing cloud modernization initiatives.
Skills
AzureAzure DevOpsBashGitHubGitHub ActionsKubernetesPowerShellPythonTerraformAKS
Industry
InsuranceFinancial services
Relocation
No