What You Must Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

• 4+ years of relevant work experience as a Developer building/running Java or C# applications.

• 2+ years deploying, managing, and rightsizing Kubernetes clusters, resources, and underlying infrastructure.

• 2+ years designing and operating public cloud environments.

• Experience using GitOps/CI-CD workflows for infrastructure as code and Helm workload deployments.

• A product mindset for internal tooling: ability to identify developer pain points and build platform solutions that address them at scale.

• Advantageous: experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Kubernetes & Containerisation: Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm & CI/CD for containerised workloads.

• Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana & ELK to monitor Kubernetes resources and Java workloads.

• Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub & GitHub Actions for version control and CI/CD.

• Operating Systems: Ansible and AWS tooling to manage Unix environments (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).

• Backend Development: Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying backend services in Java; scripting for ad-hoc problems.

• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS/Cloud services and best practices, including the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK & Terraform to write and manage infrastructure.

• Architecture and Design Patterns: DDD, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), and distributed computing architecture.

• Computer Networking: Core networking concepts including VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Peering, PrivateLink, Global Accelerators, and Load Balancing.

• Database Management: Relational databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL), event pipelining using Apache Kafka.

• Internal Developer Platform: Build and maintain self-service tooling and golden paths that reduce cognitive load for product teams.