Senior AWS Cloud Developer

Kforce has a client in Westlake, TX that is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Developer. Responsibilities:

• Define and advocate for engineering best practices, design patterns, and architectural principles
• Drive technical vision and influence product roadmaps through strategic thinking and innovation
• Comfortable in challenging existing solutions and propose scalable, maintainable alternatives
• Lead the design of complex, distributed systems ensuring reliability, performance, and security
• Ensure alignment of architecture and leadership with organizational goals and technology standards
• Passion for technology and can navigate the way across complex and rapidly changing landscapes by staying on top of the latest trends and thrive by sharing knowledge
• Champion automation, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices for efficient delivery
• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable, high quality backend services
• Strong hands-on software development experience with Java 11+, frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Batch and RESTful API development
• Have strong communication skills and partnership in driving and participating in important discussions
• Strong backend engineering skills including microservices design, event-driven architecture, messaging (Kafka/SQS), caching (Redis), and SQL/NoSQL data modeling
• Familiarity with AWS Toolsets, including but not limited to SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, Kinesis, CloudFormation, and other cloud native services
• Proven experience designing, building, and documenting customer-facing RESTful APIs with security, performance, and scalability best practices
• Knowledge in Container technologies (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and automated delivery of applications into production environments
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL database management systems
• Working knowledge of testing frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Spring Test
• Experience in Agile methodologies (Kanban, SCRUM)
• Excellent collaboration skills to work with multiple teams in the organization globally