Azure Expert (Java Specialist)

Role: Azure Expert (Java Specialist).

Location: Atlanta GA (Onsite).

Duration: Long Term Contract.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement serverless solutions using Azure Functions and Azure Durable Functions with Java.
• Build event-driven architectures leveraging Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Grid.
• Deploy manage and optimize containerized Java applications on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Integrate Azure services into enterprise Java applications ensuring scalability reliability and security.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines for Java-based workloads.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in distributed systems and microservices environments.
• Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases existing system and operational problems.
• Actively participates in architectural design system analysis and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study.
• Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures algorithms design patterns and frameworks that are maintainable scalable responsive and secure.
• Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support owning specifications quality release deployments and monitoring of production health.
• Produces complete simple and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything.
• Tests and ensures quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible.

You Have:

• 2 w/Bachelors degree.
• Experience designing and developing secure application and products.
• BS in computer science or equivalent technical field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with developing configuring and deploying applications on Microsoft Azure or any other cloud platform.
• Ability to identify key issues and details and present understandable alternatives to both technical and non-technical individuals.
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation to support the testing installation operations deployment and maintenance of products.
• Proven ability to effectively present data to facilitate understanding of findings.
• Ability to solve complex problems using analytical and creative problem-solving skills for design development and testing of systems.
• Strong knowledge of prevailing technology trends design patterns and ability to apply those as needed.
• Ability to interpret and analyze technology heatmaps and subsequently develop plans to remediate hardware/software nearing End of Life/End of Support.
• Competent at adhering to organizational processes and procedures including but not limited to scrum and various design artifacts.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Life-long learner process improver.

Required Skills & Expertise:

• Very strong hands-on experience with:
• Azure Functions and Azure Durable Functions using Java.
• Azure Service Bus (messaging and queueing).
• Azure Event Grid (event routing and pub/sub).
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (container orchestration).
• Proficiency in Java 11 Spring Boot and microservices architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Bicep.
• Experience with monitoring and logging using Azure Monitor Application Insights etc.
• Solid understanding of security best practices in Azure (RBAC Managed Identities Networking).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Developer Associate.
• Experience with distributed systems high availability and performance tuning for Java workloads.
• Familiarity with API Management Azure Storage and Azure MS SQL DB.