Job Description
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
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
- 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
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
- Internal LoadBalancer services
- Private endpoint exposure
- Backend API publishing through APIM
- Health endpoints
- Kubernetes troubleshooting
Azure Networking
Mandatory Skills
- VNet Design
- Hub-Spoke Architecture
- VNet Peering
- Route Tables (UDR)
- NSG
- Azure Firewall
- Private DNS Zones
- Private Endpoints
- Service Endpoints
- Working with enterprise hub VNets
- Connectivity through centralized firewall environments
- Shared services networking
- Routing validation and troubleshooting
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 Factory (ADF)
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Event Hub
- Cosmos DB
- ADLS Gen2
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
DevOps & CI/CD
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Enterprise
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Release Management
- Branching Strategies
- CI/CD Automation
Governance & Operations
- Cost Management & Optimization
- Tagging Strategy
- Backup & Disaster Recovery
- High Availability Architecture
- Cloud Governance Framework
- Incident & Problem Management
- Production Support
- AZ-104 Azure Administrator
- AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect
- AZ-400 Azure DevOps Engineer
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Job Details
| Role Level: | Not Applicable | Work Type: | Full-Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country: | United Arab Emirates | City: | Dubai |
| Company Website: | https://www.cognizant.com | Job Function: | Information Technology (IT) |
| Company Industry/ Sector: |
IT Services and IT Consulting and Business Consulting and Services | ||
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