Job Description
Senior Microsoft .NET (ASP.NET Core) + Azure Engineer (Agentic Copilot) Department: Engineering / Cloud Platforms / AI Enablement
Employment Type: Contract (12-18 months, Right-to-Hire preferrable)
About the Role We're hiring a
Senior .NET Core / Azure Engineer to build and modernize
cloud-native services and APIs on Microsoft Azure, while accelerating delivery through
agentic Copilot workflows . This role is hands-on: you will design, implement, test, and operate production services, and you'll also help teams adopt
Copilot Agent Mode / agentic patterns to improve developer velocity and quality (e.g., multi-file refactors, test generation, repo instruction patterns, and spec-driven development workflows).
This is an opportunity to work on a strategic initiative where engineering standards, observability, security, and automation matter-along with modern SDLC practices and high-quality delivery.
Key Responsibilities - Design, build, and operate ASP.NET Core services and APIs (REST/gRPC) with a focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Build cloud-native solutions on Azure , leveraging services such as App Service / AKS , Azure networking, identity, and managed data services
- Implement modern architecture patterns: microservices , event-driven messaging , resilient integrations, and API-first design
- Establish strong engineering quality: unit/integration testing , code reviews, static analysis, security scanning, and CI/CD automation
- Build and tune observability: structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and actionable alerts
- Partner with platform and security teams to implement secure-by-default designs (identity, secrets, encryption, access controls)
- Apply agentic Copilot practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality:
- Use Copilot Agent Mode to plan/execute changes across multiple files, assist with refactors, and generate tests and documentation
- Create and maintain repo-level Copilot guidance (e.g., "copilot instructions") to standardize AI-assisted workflows across teams
- Contribute patterns for "spec implementation" decomposition and repeatable engineering automation
Minimum Qualifications - 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong depth in C# and .NET / ASP.NET Core
- 3+ years building and running services on AWS or Microsoft Azure (AKS/App Service, networking, identity, storage, monitoring)
- Strong experience with microservices , API design, distributed systems fundamentals, and integration patterns
- Solid experience with CI/CD , branching strategies, automated testing, and release practices
- Working knowledge of containers (Docker) and orchestration (preferably Kubernetes/AKS )
- Excellent troubleshooting skills in production environments; experience with performance tuning and incident response
Agentic Copilot / AI Engineering Expectations You don't need to be an "AI researcher," but you
must be fluent in modern AI-assisted engineering workflows:
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot beyond autocomplete-especially Copilot Chat / Agent Mode behaviors that can implement multi-step tasks across a repo
- Ability to define guardrails so AI output is validated and bankable (tests, reviews, validation loops, security checks)
- Practical use of Copilot for modernization tasks: refactoring legacy code, reverse-engineering components, generating tests, and producing PR-quality summaries
Preferred Qualifications - .NET 8 modernization experience and upgrading legacy .NET solutions (e.g., multi-project solutions, dependency cleanup, test migration)
- Azure architecture experience: AKS , private networking, managed identities, Key Vault, API Management
- Event streaming/messaging (e.g., Kafka/Event Hubs), async workflows, and idempotent processing patterns
- Experience building developer enablement assets: templates, "golden paths," repo standards, and Copilot instruction patterns
Why Join Us? - Work on a high-impact engineering program using modern .NET + Azure cloud-native patterns
- Help scale engineering productivity through agentic Copilot adoption and repeatable AI-assisted delivery practices
- Collaborate with strong engineering peers who value quality, automation, observability, and secure engineering standards
- Clear path to full-time conversion within a 12-18 months window (Right-to-Hire)
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Full time, Contract work