TESTQ Technologies
Java Software Engineer
Sheffield
Posted about 23 hours ago
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Description
Partner with Product Owners to deeply understand requirements and break them down into focused deliverable items
- Design and build robust scalable microservices with high observability and supportability following DevOps and Agile principles
- Own your deliverables end-to-end from design through deployment and hit agreed timelines
- Provide rapid effective production support, perform root cause analysis on incidents, and drive long-term fixes that stick
- Act as a trusted technical consultant for platform users, resolving queries and unblocking teams with speed and clarity
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional IT teams and coordinate stakeholder activities to keep the platform evolving
- Proactively manage technical debt and keep security and vulnerability posture sharp
- Mentor junior developers, share knowledge generously, and champion a high-performing team culture
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Essential Skillset Experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related discipline
- 8 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a leadership or technical lead role focused on DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE
- Solid understanding of how the internet and HTTP work under the hood, DNS, TLS, load balancing, reverse proxies, service meshes, and API gateways, and how these come together in modern microservice architectures
- Strong programming ability, structured and OOP, in one or more of Java, JavaScript, Python, or Clojure
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and InfluxDB, familiarity with time-series databases, and data visualisation concepts
- A proactive mindset; you spot problems, performance bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities before they become urgent
- Proven experience managing critical production incidents under pressure
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies and drive self-development and knowledge sharing within the team
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Desirable Skillset Experience
- Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and networking fundamentals
- Hands-on experience with KVM/VMware virtualisation
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerisation, Docker, Kubernetes
Skills
Mandatory Skills: API Gateway, GCP DevOps, Grafana, Java
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Skills
Java
DevOps
API Gateway
GCP
Grafana