IT Software Engineer 5 - Senior Java Developer - AWS

Role: IT Software Engineer 5 - Senior Java Developer - AWS
Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid 

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About The AES Group
The AES Group is a premier technology and engineering consulting company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years to deliver innovative solutions that have the greatest positive impact on society. AES has helped over 40 business enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, engage their customers, empower their employees, and transform their business operations with the power of cloud, data, AI, engineering, and other emerging technologies.

Education & Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering or related field is required

Technical Skills

• 10+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java
• Must have 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS.
• All applications are deployed to AWS

Proven experience in many of the following:

• Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.
• Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.
• Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GoCD, etc
• Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
• Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)
• Experience with AI tools is a BIG PLUS

Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following:

• Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ.
• Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs
• Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible
• o Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development.
• Hands on experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle. o Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc
• Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms 

Soft Skills  

• Must demonstrate solid knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals, such as data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
• Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
• Demonstrated leadership on small to medium-scale projects impacting strategic priorities