DevOps Engineer with strong JAVA and Spring Boot
Richfield, MN
Contract
Direct Client
**** Need strong JAVA and Spring Boot experience ***
Position Summary/Job Description:
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our Enterprise API Management team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for building, deploying, and operating our platform and services, with an emphasis on automation, reliability, and secure-by-default delivery. This role partners closely with engineers through collaboration and pair programming to improve CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting practices, and operational readiness, and it also requires some software development experience (e.g., ability to read/debug code and contribute when needed). Technologies involved include Kubernetes, Helm charts, Java/Spring Boot, AWS offerings (certification preferred), and API platform capabilities such as API Gateway and security.
Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
- Kubernetes 5+ Years
- Helm Charts 4+ Years
- AWS (core offerings; certification preferred) 5+ Years
- Java and Spring Boot 5+ Years
- API Security 5+ Years
What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?
- CI/CD and GitOps
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation)
- API Gateway/API Management experience
- Observability tooling (logging/metrics/tracing) and on-call readiness
- Lua Programming
- Collaborative delivery practices (pair programming, code reviews)
Interview Process Overview:
Initial meeting: 20-30 minutes:
Hiring Manager to discuss the role and determine high-level fit
Interview Panel of 1-2 Devs + Hiring Manager: 1.5 hour: prefer Onsite Panel Interview
30 minutes Java Coding exercise
45-60 minutes technical questions based on experience, related to:
DevOps
Java and Spring framework
Additional Job Requirements: JOB TITLE DevOps Engineer
I am looking for local candidates.
Hybrid, willing to come onsite 2-3 times a week.
Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
- Kubernetes 5+ Years
- Helm Charts 4+ Years
- AWS (core offerings; certification preferred) 5+ Years
- Java and Spring Boot 5+ Years
- API Security 5+ Years