Cloud Native Application Engineering

Greetings from Coforge!

Coforge is looking for Cloud Native Application Engineering with 6-10 years experience in cloud-native application development, containerization, Kubernetes, Azure cloud services, CI/CD automation and API-driven architecture.

Important Note : We are looking for an immediate joiner for this role! If you're on a 30/60/90-day notice period, this opportunity may not be the right fit at the moment. We truly appreciate your understanding!

Please find the below detailed job description and the company profile for your better understanding.

Position: Cloud Native Application Engineering

Experience: 6-10 years

Job Location: Coimbatore / Bangalore

Position Type: Full time

Qualification: Any graduate

Work Mode: Hybrid

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and govern the overall cloud-native architecture, designing scalable, secure, and highly available distributed microservices solutions that align with business and technology objectives.
• Architect and implement enterprise-grade Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, including RBAC models, OAuth2, OIDC, token lifecycle management, and Microsoft Entra ID integrations.
• Design, deploy, and optimize production Kubernetes platforms on Azure, including AKS, service meshes, network policies, autoscaling, resilience, and platform security.
• Lead the architecture of event-driven and distributed systems using Kafka, ensuring reliable asynchronous communication, data consistency, fault tolerance, and high-performance message processing.
• Define enterprise Azure architecture standards covering networking, security, cloud governance, cost optimization, and cloud resource management for production environments.
• Establish strategies for distributed data management, database design, transaction handling, and consistency across microservices-based applications.
• Drive observability and reliability initiatives through monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting frameworks using tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
• Lead adoption of GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform, Flux, and automated CI/CD pipelines, including deployment strategies such as Canary, Blue-Green, and rollback mechanisms.
• Conduct architecture reviews, provide technical governance, and mentor engineering teams on cloud-native design patterns, security best practices, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, DevOps, security, and platform teams to translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and production-ready cloud solutions.

Required Skills:

• System Architecture: Deep expertise in designing, scaling, and governing complex distributed microservices architectures with high availability, resilience, and performance.
• Enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM): Strong knowledge of RBAC, OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), token lifecycle management, federated identity, and Microsoft Entra ID integration.
• Kubernetes & Platform Engineering: Extensive hands-on experience with production Kubernetes environments, including AKS, service meshes, network policies, autoscaling, workload security, and cluster operations.
• Distributed Data Systems: Strong understanding of database architecture, distributed transactions, consistency patterns, data replication, caching, and fault-tolerant system design.
• Event-Driven Architecture: Proven experience designing and implementing Kafka-based asynchronous messaging systems, including event-driven communication patterns, retry mechanisms, broker tuning, and secure service-to-service interactions.
• Microsoft Azure Architecture: Deep expertise in Azure cloud architecture, including networking, security, governance, AKS infrastructure, cloud cost optimization, and enterprise-scale deployments.
• Observability & Reliability Engineering: Experience implementing monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent observability platforms.
• GitOps & Infrastructure-as-Code: Strong expertise with Terraform, Flux, GitOps practices, CI/CD automation, deployment strategies (Canary, Blue / Green), and automated rollback mechanisms.
• Security & Compliance: Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, Zero Trust principles, secure architecture design, encryption, secrets management, and compliance requirements.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to lead architecture reviews, establish technical standards, mentor engineering teams, and drive adoption of cloud-native best practices across projects.

Good to Have:

• Experience with multi-region Azure deployments, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Familiarity with API gateways, service meshes, and advanced traffic management strategies.
• Exposure to cloud cost optimization, and Azure governance frameworks.
• Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, CKA, or Terraform Associate

Why Coforge?

Coforge is a global digital services and solutions provider that leverages emerging technologies and deep domain expertise to deliver real-world business impact for our clients. Weve emerged as the 7th largest Indian IT services firm.

Who We Are: Coforge is devoted to making the world a better place for clients, for our communities and for our people.

What We Do: We help businesses transform into intelligent, high-growth enterprises through capabilities in Generative AI, Cloud, Data & Analytics, Low-Code Platforms, Intelligent Automation and Cybersecurity.

Coforge specializes in Data Governance, Digital Transformation, and Disruptive Technologies, helping clients to capitalize on their potential efficiencies.

Coforge has been an instrumental partner in the digital transformation journey of clients across a broad spectrum of industries: Health Tech, Fin Tech, Hi-Tech, Security, Digital Payments, Education Publication, Travel, Real Estate, Supply Chain and Logistics and Emerging Technologies.

Coforge operate across 25 countries, with 30 global delivery centers, and a thriving global workforce of 40,000+ employees. Our international network ensures that clients receive seamless access to the complete range of our services and expert knowledge and skills of professionals globally.

Coforge has been recognized as a Great Place to Work certified organisation.

Coforge was recognized at the ET Edge Best Organisations for Women 2026.

Interview Levels: 3-Technical Interviews

Regards,

Ravisankar P

Talent Acquisition - Coforge

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