Principal AWS Cloud Developer

We are currently sourcing for a Principal Cloud Developer to work in Westlake, TX!

The Expertise we're looking:

• 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.
• Own 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.
• Have strong communication skills and partnership in driving and participating in important discussions.

Technical Skills

• 10+ 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated 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).
• Demonstrable ability to read high-level business requirements and drive clarifying questions.
• Excellent collaboration skills to work with multiple teams in the organization globally.