Senior Developer – Microsoft 365 Copilot & AI Agents:
Experience Range: 5 to 13 years
Location: PAN India
Level: SA & M
Work Model: Hybrid 3 days WFO
Shift: Regular Shift (11.00 AM to 8.00 PM IST)
Notice: Immediate to 30 days
Key Responsibilities & Required Skills
- At least 5 -13 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying enterprise software solutions using Python and Azure cloud services.
- At least 6 months of hands-on experience building and deploying custom agents using the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, including building conversational agents across surfaces such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and web channels.
- Strong experience using the Microsoft Agent Framework or Semantic Kernel Python SDK together for multi-agent orchestration, tool invocation, plugins, workflows, memory, and function calling.
- Strong experience with Azure OpenAI and Nice to have knowledge on Azure AI Foundry, including deploying and managing models, configuring inference endpoints
- Should have experience deploying custom agents as Teams apps, including publishing agents to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, with configuration across Entra ID, Azure Bot Service.
- Strong working knowledge of core Azure services including App Service, Azure Functions, Key Vault, and Cosmos DB for building, securing, and scaling agent backends.
- Should have experience securing agent solutions using Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, and Key Vault for secrets management.
- Should have strong experience with observability and monitoring of deployed agents using Application Insights, OpenTelemetry, and Foundry's built-in agent tracing and evaluation pipelines.
- Should have good understanding of RAG pipelines using Azure AI Search for grounding agent responses with enterprise knowledge (Optional).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for deploying agent solutions across dev, staging, and production environments.
About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
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