Cloud Platform Engineer

About the role

Hansen Talent Group is seeking a strong, remote software engineer with in-depth experience developing and supporting Java Cloud platforms as part of a large-scale modernization and migration effort. The Cloud Platform Engineer will lead design and development efforts to support a Java migration, moving on-prem legacy applications to a new, cloud platform.

Responsibilities

• Participate in discovery and stakeholder meetings to understand business and functional requirements needed to design best-fit solutions.
• Assist architects in design and technical decision-making, addressing potential concerns and roadblocks while ensuring client requirements align with the technology in use.
• Lead planning activities and support stakeholder communications.
• Design and develop Java Spring APIs and review existing architecture, making changes and recommendations as needed.
• Integrate cloud services to support computing, storage, and serverless functions.
• Write and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to manage cloud infrastructure.
• Review CI/CD pipelines, working with Jenkins and GitHub to ensure smooth deployments.
• Support the integration of security tools and reporting dashboards to support DevSecOps initiatives and overall security posture for the client platform.
• Oversee code reviews and mentor junior developers on cloud-native best practices.
• Research and evaluate new technologies to support continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Experience as a lead developer supporting cloud migration projects.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in design and development of Java applications hosted on AWS.
• Experience with AWS serverless functions.