Austin-based SDVOSB delivering application development, cybersecurity, instructional design and training to DOD and VA.

Microservices Engineer

EngineerEngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2008H1B No SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

9 days ago

Salary

$135K - $160K / year

15 yrs expEnglishAWSDockerJavaKubernetesMicroservicesRubySpringSpring BootSpring Boot

Job Description

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across dozens of microservices powering mission-critical VA systems. • Oversee technical direction for 32 microservices across 6 agile teams (~40 engineers). • Lead architecture and code reviews for Spring Boot and Ruby microservices. • Review and guide AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) YAML configurations. • Improve health monitoring, DORA metrics, and operational observability. • Identify and recommend solutions to improve scalability, reliability, and availability. • Advise executives on strategic technology decisions and team capacity planning. • Oversee major deployments, high-risk secret key rotations, and on-call operations.

Job Requirements

15+ years of software engineering experience, with strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Ruby.
Deep experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and version control.
Experience operating in 24/7, 99.999% SLA environments.
Background working with public-facing APIs and complex backend data integrations.
Proficiency with monitoring tools such as Datadog and Kibana.
Strong executive-level communication skills.
Mastery in API programming and the Java Spring Framework.
Advanced experience with AWS DevOps and GitHub.