AWS DevOps Engineer - Java

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Role:: Devops Engineer

Location:: Columbus, Ohio

Contract - Day 1 Onsite

Primary Skills: Jenkins, Kubernetes, Automation

Experience : 10+ years

• Job Description :10+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, Hands-on experience with pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Spinnaker, Jenkins, or similar)Strong understanding of DevOps, GitOps concepts, and Release Engineering practices. • Familiarity with the Java ecosystem (Maven, Gradle, JARs/WARs) sufficient to support deploymentsContainerization & Orchestration. • 5+ years of experience deploying and scaling microservices in Kubernetes (including AWS EKS). • Proficiency with Docker and containerization best practicesInfrastructure as Code experience (e.g., Terraform or similar) • Cloud & Infrastructure:Hands-on experience with cloud deployments, primarily on AWS core services (IAM, ECR, S3, CloudWatch). • High-level understanding of application infrastructure, system design, and platform architecture • Programming & Scripting:Proficiency in at least one programming language, with Go (Golang), Java strongly preferred for CLI tooling. • Familiarity with Python is a plus;

Monitoring & Observability:

• Experience with monitoring and ops analysis tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or Datadog.Ability to develop automation tools for alerting, toil reduction, and technical debt management • Version Control & Collaboration:Hands-on expertise with Git/Bitbucket workflows. • Knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) • Experience contributing to Sprint Planning, Refinement, and backlog grooming sessions. • Leadership & Communication:Demonstrated ability to lead a team of software engineers. • Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.Ability to coordinate across development teams, architects, and business stakeholdersExperience troubleshooting incidents and contributing to post-mortem processes. • Preferred Qualifications,

Capabilities & Skills.

• Prior experience as an Engineering Lead or Technical Team Lead. • GitOps tooling experience . • Secrets management experience (AWS Secrets Manager) • Service mesh experience (Istio) • AWS and/or Kubernetes certifications • Familiarity with agentic coding concepts