Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Application Performance & Security – 60%
- Monitor and optimize application performance, ensuring applications are running efficiently and reliably.
- Conduct regular security assessments and performance checks to identify and resolve potential issues.
- Oversee the application lifecycle, ensuring timely updates, releases, and enhancements.
Innovation, Collaboration and Continuous Improvement– 40%
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, integrating relevant advancements into the development process.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and designers, to deliver solutions that meet customer needs.
- Enhance the application development process and drive innovation within the team.
Required / Desired Knowledge, Experiences, and Skills:
Common
Technical Expertise:
- Strong hands-on experience with Java development (JDK 1.7 and 1.8), including Java frameworks.
- Extensive experience with AWS native services including EC2, API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, ECS, CloudWatch, and Docker.
- Proven experience with event-driven architectures and managing applications that rely on such paradigms.
- Expertise in code repository management, including merging and unmerging with Git or Bitbucket, and managing code versions effectively.
- Strong experience with third-party collaboration and communication, ensuring seamless integration and coordination with external partners.
- Proficient in container management with Kubernetes, EKS, or similar frameworks, including cluster management.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, including local setup, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Extensive DevOps CI/CD experience, including hands-on with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins and Nexus Repository Manager.
- Strong troubleshooting and analysis skills, with a demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues.
- Experience with local setup and debugging, ensuring efficient development environments and resolving issues swiftly.
Methodologies and Practices:
- Experience with Agile methodology.
- Excellent communication and client interpersonal skills.
- Experience with Atlassian apps (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence) and IDEs such as IntelliJ.
- Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog.
Additional Experience:
- Core Java knowledge and experience with Hibernate, JPA.
- Experience with the insurance domain (optional).
- Basic knowledge of Python is a plus.
- Insurance policy lifecycle expertise includes understanding the end-to-end process of policy issuance, processing, and compliance.
- Payment experience covers integrating payment gateways and adhering to security standards to ensure secure transaction handling