Backend Software Engineer with strong DevOps expertise
Duration: 6+ months with high possibility of extension
Location: Richfield, MN (Hybrid)
Core Responsibilities
The engineer will:
- Build and operate platform services
- Deploy and manage applications in Kubernetes environments
- Support API gateway infrastructure and OAuth token services
- Contribute to Java and Spring Boot development
- Ensure secure API implementations
- Automate deployments and infrastructure
- Support operational needs of owned services
Key focus areas include:
- Automation
- Platform reliability
- Security
- Traceability of deployments
Required Technical Skills
The manager strongly emphasized the following core technologies:
Core Stack
- Kubernetes
- Helm / Helm Charts
- Java
- Spring Boot
- AWS Cloud
Security Knowledge
- API Security
- OAuth flows
- Secure API design
Candidates should understand cloud infrastructure from both:
- Platform perspective
- Infrastructure perspective
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
DevOps / Platform Tools
- CI/CD pipelines
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code
API Platform Experience
- API Gateway
- API Management
Observability
- Monitoring / logging tools
Other
- On-call readiness
- Experience with enterprise systems
The manager mentioned that tool-specific experience is less important than understanding the domain, since engineers can adapt to different tools.
AWS Skills (Nice-to-Have)
Specific AWS knowledge that would help:
- EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
However, if a candidate understands Kubernetes well, they should be able to adapt to EKS.
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