AWS Cloud-Native Java / EKS Engineer (iOCOOO168)
Overview
The AWS Cloud-Native Java / EKS Engineer will design, build, deploy and support organisational Java-based APIs, integration services and microservices on AWS. The resource must combine strong software-engineering discipline with hands-on Kubernetes and EKS capability and must be able to diagnose failures across application, container, cluster, network and external-integration layers.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years' professional Java software-development experience in enterprise or high-availability transactional environments.
- Strong production experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, SOAP services, JSON/XML, JPA/Hibernate and relational databases.
- Demonstrable hands-on experience deploying and supporting production workloads on AWS, Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
- Demonstrable experience with Docker, Helm, container registries, CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices.
- Experience with AWS services relevant to the SAA estate, including EKS, EC2, ECR, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, load balancing, networking and security controls.
- Experience in monitoring, production troubleshooting, incident response, performance analysis and root-cause resolution for distributed services.
- Experience integrating with external enterprise platforms using authenticated, high-volume and business-critical interfaces.
- Prior airline, travel, loyalty, e-commerce or similarly regulated high-availability transactional experience is required; direct airline integration experience is preferred.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or a relevant tertiary qualification supported by equivalent professional experience.
- A current AWS certification relevant to solution architecture, development or operations.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and maintain Java and Spring Boot services supporting company digital channels and airline business processes.
- Build and maintain REST and SOAP integrations with Amadeus, airline partners, internal systems, payment, notification, loyalty and operational services.
- Containerise services using Docker and deploy, configure and operate workloads on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
- Create and maintain Helm charts, manifests, configuration, secrets, health probes, resource limits, autoscaling and deployment strategies.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using approved source control, build, quality, security, container registry and deployment tooling.
- Apply secure coding, dependency management, vulnerability remediation, least-privilege access, encryption and secrets-management practices.
- Implement observability using structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards and alerts; support capacity planning and proactive reliability improvements.
- Troubleshoot production issues across JVM, application, database, API, DNS, TLS, network, load-balancer, ingress, pod and cluster layers.
- Participate in code reviews, automated testing, static analysis, performance testing, release planning and technical documentation.
- Provide on-call or scheduled production support where required and contribute to incident reports, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes.
- Collaborate with architects, mobile and web developers, cloud/platform teams, security teams and external airline technology vendors.
- Transfer implementation and operational knowledge to company technical personnel and maintain runbooks and support documentation.
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