Cloud Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Implement best of breed, scalable solutions according to defined patterns and practices;
• Responsible for communicating overall vision and designs to others, producing documented designs and presenting your solution and its benefits;
• Responsible for porting existing applications to a microservices based architecture;
• Responsible for providing project guidance and oversight from a technical stand point to multiple projects/scrum teams;
• Hands on support and upskilling of existing resources, providing patterns for common problems and developing prototypes;
• Work with Scrum teams using Agile practices and adhering to the values and principles;
• Contributes to/forms the strategic directions for the use of concepts, technologies, languages, patterns, APIs, and frameworks;
• Responsible for managing a small team (circa 5 FTEs) of software engineers including setting objectives, managing performance, and mentoring and developing;
• Leads software development teams for specific programmes or projects as required;
• Delegates authority and empowers others; and
• Mentors provides direction, and assist with development plans for other members of the software development team.

Experience Required

• 7+ years Java programming experience with at least 3 years in a team leading role;
• Experience in leading development of complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers. Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and relational databases;
• Highly proficient in Java Full Stack Technologies. Track record of delivering high quality, complex technical solutions;
• Knowledge and experience of Spring, Spring Boot and Java EE;
• Unit and Integration testing (Junit and Mocking);
• Web services (SOAP and REST);
• GIT, Maven, Jenkins or similar ;
• Good knowledge of System Architectures, Software Engineering, and DevOps / Agile practices – experience of Agile Methodologies and operating in agile / scrum based teams;
• Strong competencies in Strategic Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Problem Solving, Working on own Initiative;
• Excellent team player, collaborative, and supportive;
• A solution driven, self-starter with commitment and follow through;
• Ability to multitask while maintaining a high level of attention to detail and
• Fluent in English and written and verbal.

Essential and Desirable Skills

• Minimum 3 years- experience in a similar role
• Minimum 5 years- experience in software development
• 3rd level qualification (honours degree), preferably in a related discipline