Java Developer

Hays plc
Telford, UK
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
1 year minimum
Compensation
£156,000.0 - £166,400.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Cloud Engineering Junit Apache Maven OAuth OpenID Scrum Methodology Mockito Prometheus Selenium
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Software Deployment Openapi Datadog ReactJS Grafana Spring-boot Gitlab Git Containerization Gitlab-ci Kubernetes Playwright Kibana Data Pipelines Dynatrace Microservices

Job description

Role 1 - Java Engineer (Kubernetes Platform Delivery) What you’ll be doing -Working within a Scrum team delivering common and technical components for a large government programme. -Building and supporting services deployed onto Kubernetes platforms, with a focus on deployment, automation and operational excellence. -Contributing to technical design, engineering standards and Agile delivery.

What we’re looking for -Java 17+ / Spring Boot 3+ -Kubernetes and containerised application delivery -Helm -GitLab CI/CD pipelines -Observability tooling (OpenSearch, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace etc.) -Technical leadership experience -Agile delivery experience

Role 2 - Java Engineer with Helm What you’ll be doing -Working closely with application teams to deliver and manage services on Kubernetes. -Supporting application deployment, management, automation and pipeline development. -Helping teams adopt cloud-native engineering practices and platform standards.

What we’re looking for -Java and Spring Boot -Kubernetes -Helm (key requirement) -Microservices design and development -GitLab CI/CD pipelines -Containerisation -Observability and monitoring -AWS, Maven Git / GitLab React / JavaScript OpenAPI OAuth2 / OpenID JUnit / Mockito AWS Grafana / Kibana Microservices architecture Agile Scrum delivery Selenium / Playwright Java 17+ / Spring Boot 3+ (where not already listed as core)

Requirements

Java -Kubernetes -HMRC Container Platform (HCP) experience -Technical leadership experience -Coaching and mentoring capability -Stakeholder management -Strong communication and team engagement skills -Quality-driven approach

Benefits & conditions

  • £600 - £640 p/d Inside IR35
  • Hybrid - 2 days a week in Telford, the rest is WFH
  • 6 months+ contract

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