Senior .NET Backend Engineer (Azure Cloud Focus)

Title : Senior .NET Backend Engineer (Azure Cloud Focus)
Location : Atlanta (Hybrid)
Required Experience
10+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in C#, .NET Core, and .NET 8/10+
Deep hands-on experience designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure
Strong experience with Azure services including:
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Service Bus
Azure Storage
Azure Functions
Azure Key Vault
Azure Monitor / Application Insights
Azure API Management
Azure SQL Database
Proven experience building scalable, distributed microservices architectures (not monolithic applications)
Strong understanding of cloud-native and event-driven architectures
Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting applications in AKS/Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration
Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates
Strong understanding of Azure networking, identity, security, and private connectivity concepts
Experience working in hybrid cloud and on-premises environments
Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
Experience automating build, deployment, testing, and release processes
Strong API design, backend architecture, and service integration skills
Solid experience with SQL Server, Azure SQL, data modeling, and performance tuning
Strong understanding of resiliency patterns including retries, circuit breakers, failover, and fault tolerance
Experience supporting high-volume, transaction-intensive distributed systems
Strong production support and troubleshooting skills across multiple environments
Experience implementing security best practices including OAuth, JWT, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and secrets management
Preferred Experience
Hands-on Kafka experience including producer/consumer design, retries, dead-letter queues, and event troubleshooting
Experience with distributed tracing and observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Experience designing schemas for event-driven systems, including idempotency, ordering, and schema evolution
Experience with performance engineering, scalability testing, and bottleneck analysis
Experience leading technical design sessions and mentoring engineers
Experience modernizing legacy applications and migrating workloads to Azure
What We're Looking For
Senior engineer who can independently own solutions from architecture through production support
Strong Azure practitioner, not just someone familiar with Azure concepts
Comfortable making architecture decisions, troubleshooting complex production issues, and driving cloud modernization initiatives
Able to work closely with business, architecture, and platform teams while maintaining hands-on development responsibilities
Key emphasis: This role requires a developer with strong real-world Azure implementation experience, particularly with AKS, Azure DevOps, cloud-native microservices, observability, security, and production support, not just .NET development experience.

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