Cognizant · Tallahassee, FLremote

Salary
Posted
Jul 27, 2026
Location
Tallahassee, FL
Last confirmed open
Jul 28, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A Senior/Lead .NET Developer role at Cognizant's IoT practice, responsible for designing and delivering scalable, high-throughput enterprise applications using .NET Core, C#, and cloud-native Microsoft Azure technologies. The position carries team leadership duties — mentoring developers and driving technical standards — alongside hands-on architecture work spanning microservices, event-driven systems (Kafka), and containerized deployments on Kubernetes.

Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time

Must have (10)
.NET CoreC#SQL ServerEntity Framework or Ef CoreDockerKubernetesKafkaAzureCI/CDREST APIs
Nice to have (3)
Application InsightsPrometheusGitHub Copilot, Chatgpt or LLM

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

Posted 8 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

What gives you an edge
Kafka12%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Docker53%CI/CD45%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (5)

No work location or metro area is specified in the posting; the CBSA fields have been left blank. The role does not appear to be advertised as remote.

The title reads 'Senior/Lead' — the posting presents both levels simultaneously. 'Senior' is used as the advertised seniority since it is the first and more common framing; the leadership and mentoring duties are consistent with a Senior/Lead IC rather than a formal people-management role, so the individual-contributor SOC (15-1252) is preferred over 11-3021, though the alt code is noted given the explicit team-lead framing.

Compensation is described only as 'Base Salary + COLA' with no figures provided; no numeric range could be extracted.

Observability tools (Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana) are listed under Required Skills but introduced with 'Experience with … (… etc.)' — the 'etc.' framing and parenthetical presentation suggest familiarity rather than a hard gate, so these are marked preferred.

AI development tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) appear under Required Skills but are framed as 'Familiarity with' — a softer qualifier — so they are marked preferred.

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