Junior Java Platform Engineer (Kafka, Kubernetes, Gatling / BlazeMeter)

Do you have experience in gRPC?, * Java Microservices

• Kubernetes
• Gatling / BlazeMeter (Performance Testing)

You'll be embedded in a cross-functional engineering team building and evolving a distributed, event-driven platform that handles real workloads at scale. From designing resilient microservices to owning performance benchmarks, your fingerprints will be on the architecture.

You'll work day-to-day alongside platform engineers, DevOps specialists and QA leads in a fast-moving, collaborative environment where delivery and quality go hand in hand.

Essential experience:

• Solid Java development background with production microservices experience.

• Hands-on Apache Kafka in a real streaming or event-driven architecture.

• Kubernetes - deploying, scaling and debugging containerised workloads.

• Terraform for IaC - writing, planning and applying infrastructure changes.

• Container tooling: Podman, Docker, or equivalent; familiarity with Red Hat environments.

• CockroachDB or any distributed/NoSQL database - you understand consistency models, not just CRUD.

• Test automation culture - code coverage tooling, mutation testing frameworks, mocking strategies.

• Performance testing with Gatling or BlazeMeter; you know how to find the bottleneck.

• Observability: Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboard design.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with gRPC or protocol buffers in a polyglot service landscape.

• Exposure to Gaia platform tooling or S3-compatible object storage integration.

• Strong CI/CD knowledge - GitOps, pipeline design, automated gates.

• Background in financial services, telecoms or high-throughput platform engineering.