Senior Java Developer Cloud Engineer

You will be part of a team designing, automating, and deploying services on behalf of our customers to the cloud in a way that allows these services to automatically heal themselves if things go south. We have deep experience applying cloud architecture techniques in virtually every industry. Every week is different and the problems you will be challenged to solve are constantly evolving. We build solutions using infrastructure-as-code so our customers can refine and reuse these processes again and again - all without having to come back to us for additional deployments.

This job is not eligible for sponsorship

Key Responsibilities

• Create well-designed, documented, and tested software features that meet customer requirements.
• Identify and address product bugs, deficiencies, and performance bottlenecks.
• Participate in an agile delivery team, helping to ensure the technical quality of the features delivered across the team, including documentation, testing strategies, and code.
• Help determine technical feasibility and solutions for business requirements.
• Remain up-to-date on emerging technologies and architecture and propose ways to use them in current and upcoming projects.
• Leverage technical knowledge to cut scope while maintaining or achieving the overall goals of the product.
• Leverage technical knowledge to improve the quality and efficiency of product applications and tools.
• Willingness to travel to client locations and deliver professional services

Qualifications

• Experience developing software in GCP, AWS, or Azure
• 5+ yrs experience developing applications in Java
• 3+ years required with at least one other programming language such as Node.js, Scala, Python, Go, C#, Typescript, Ruby.
• Experience with relational databases, including designing complex schemas and queries.
• Experience developing within distributed systems or a microservice based architecture.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for documenting workflows, tools, or complex areas of a codebase.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and multi-task efficiently.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• 3+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GCP
• Building applications using Container and serverless technologies
• Cloud Certifications
• Good exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment
• Exposure to Continuous Integration (CI) tools (e.g. Jenkins)
• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems
• Experience working directly with customers, partners or third-party developers




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