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Java Software Engineer
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Java Engineer
Inside IR35 Rate £600.00
Clearance Required: BPSS
Location: Hybrid Telford with 2 days/week in office
We're looking for a Java Engineer with strong experience building and deploying cloud-native applications on Kubernetes, with proven expertise in Helm being an essential requirement. This role is ideal for an engineer who understands not only how to develop modern applications, but also how to package, deploy, manage, and support them within enterprise Kubernetes environments.
This is not a pure platform engineering role. We're seeking someone with an application engineering mindset who can work closely with development teams and understands the expectations that cloud platforms place on application deployment, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, observability, and operational support. Experience with HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) would be highly beneficial.
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You'll play a key role in designing, developing, and deploying scalable Java microservices while helping shape best practices for application delivery across a cloud-native ecosystem.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design, develop, and support cloud-native Java applications and microservices.
- Deploy and manage applications within Kubernetes environments.
- Create and maintain Helm charts for application deployment and lifecycle management.
- Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
- Collaborate with platform and application teams to ensure deployment standards and best practices are followed.
- Drive containerisation and automation initiatives across the application estate.
- Implement observability solutions, monitoring, logging, and performance analysis.
- Contribute to application architecture and microservice design decisions.
- Support the adoption of modern engineering practices across the development lifecycle.
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Essential Skills
- Strong commercial experience with Java
- Helm experience (critical requirement)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of microservice architecture and implementation
- Springboot
- Experience building and supporting GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes
- Observability, monitoring, and logging practices
- AWS cloud experience
- Strong understanding of Git version control
- Experience working within Agile development environments
Desirable Skills
- HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP)
- MongoDB
- gRPC
- React / JavaScript
- Maven
- JDBC
- Java 17+
- Spring Boot 3+
- JUnit, Mockito
- Playwright, Selenium
- JPA
- GraalVM
- OpenAPI
- Kibana and Grafana
- OAuth2 / OpenID Connect
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