Developer Platform Engineer

Cognizant

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Hartford, CT
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20 days ago
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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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The Developer Platform Engineer joins the team to enhance the Local Developer Experience ecosystem while owning the DevOps and DevSecOps toolchain connecting local development to enterprise production delivery. This role focuses on designing, administering, and standardizing developer workstation environments and local development toolchains. You will build reusable local development templates, starter kits, and environment blueprints while automating workstation provisioning to reduce onboarding time. Key responsibilities include managing version lifecycles, enforcing standards for IDE configurations, and providing L3 support for complex issues. You will work extensively with Visual Studio, Docker Desktop, .NET, and JDK. The role requires integrating local workflows with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD to ensure secure, compliant, and reproducible development-to-production parity across various technology stacks and enterprise pipelines.

Skills

DevOps DevSecOps CI/CD Docker Visual Studio .NET JDK GitHub Actions Jenkins ArgoCD Windows MacOS Package Management Software Asset Management Golden Images IDE Configuration

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain enterprise-standard local developer environments for Windows and MacOS workstations.
  • Administer Visual Studio, Docker Desktop, .NET SDKs, and JDK platforms as the technical lead.
  • Automate workstation provisioning and establish standardized baselines to reduce developer onboarding time.
  • Create reusable local development templates, starter kits, and environment blueprints for various technology stacks.
  • Define and enforce standards for IDE configurations, code quality tooling, and package management.
  • Manage version lifecycles, compatibility testing, and patching for all developer tools and frameworks.
  • Provide L3 support to troubleshoot complex issues across IDEs, containers, build tools, and runtime environments.
  • Integrate local development workflows with enterprise CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD.

What we're looking for

  • Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-standard local developer environments across Windows and MacOS workstations.
  • Act as the technical lead and administrator for Visual Studio, Docker Desktop, .NET SDK/Runtime, and JDK platforms.
  • Establish and maintain standardized workstation baselines, golden images, and automated provisioning for developer systems.
  • Create reusable local development templates, starter kits, and environment blueprints for application teams.
  • Define and enforce standards for IDE configuration, code quality tooling, SDK versions, and package management.
  • Manage version lifecycle, upgrades, compatibility testing, and patching of developer tools and frameworks.
  • Provide L3 support for troubleshooting complex issues across IDEs, SDKs, containers, build tools, and runtime environments.
  • Integrate local workflows with enterprise CI/CD platforms including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD.

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