Senior Java Developer / OpenShift Cloud Expert at Redheads Engineering Solutions (Pty) Ltd

Key Deliverables: 

• We are looking for a Senior JAVA Developer / OpenShift Cloud Expert to join our clients existing team of rock-solid cloud specialists developing the next generation of software systems.
• The Services mainly run on the OpenShift Cloud Platform
• If you are a passionate JAVA developer, willing to take a lead role, sharing knowledge and giving guidance, are thrilled about latest technologies, full of energy and ambition, hands-on and not afraid of getting your hands dirty, this is the right position for you
• Contribute to the refinement of user stories (the user stories are at the beginning of a development sprint might not be finally specified)
• Clarify open points possibly making proposals and/or developing a prototype for further discussion
• Development of backend and frontend user stories
• Take part in regular Scrum meetings via Skype
• Daily, Planning, Estimation, Refinement, Review, Retro
• Liaise with stakeholders and team members
• Support existing solutions, DevOps
• Excellent communication skills and team-oriented work behaviour in a distributed team
• Fit for business purpose mindset, i.e. the solutions provided must meet the business goals

Strong JAVA skills including but not limited to:

Sound knowledge in Java

• Familiarity with Microservices Architectures, Cloud Architectures or Container Architectures e.g. Docker
• Experience with Container Orchestration Platforms preferably OpenShift or Kubernetes
• At least 8 years' worth of experience using front-end and back-end technologies such as
• Java
• JavaScript
• HTML 5
• CSS
• Git
• Maven or Jenkins

Sound experience in developing backend applications:

• Architecture and Interface Design
• Data modelling and Database technologies (relational, document, graph, time series, geolocation)
• Implementation of Backend Services
• Knowledge of Restful Services, MQTT or Kafka

UI frameworks:

• Angular or React (Version 6 or higher)
• Experience of agile methodologies, particularly Scrum
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery tools (e.g. GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, Concourse, Jenkins )

Added advantage:

• Experience with testing tools like Karma, Jasmine, Postman, Newman, Cypress, Selenium, Junit, Robot, Jest
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience with backend frameworks like Spring, Java EE

Please ensure that your skills and expertise are relevant to the requirements of this position. They are looking for candidates that have solid working experience in the above-mentioned Skills.