Senior Application Developer / DevOps Engineer

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Position Title: Senior Application Developer / DevOps Engineer

Remote Kansas City, MO final interview will be on location and must be willing to come to Kansas City 1X per quarter

Position Responsibilities:

As a Senior Application Developer / DevOps Engineer, you'll join a collaborative software engineering team focused on application migration, modernization, and production support. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Leading the modernization and migration of applications-from JBoss to WildFly and onto Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Assessing applications, dependencies, and interfaces to identify and mitigate migration risks.
• Performing root-cause analysis and troubleshooting production issues, ensuring robust and reliable deployments.
• Designing, developing, deploying, and integrating REST APIs, with an emphasis on scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Managing Maven build processes, including parent POMs, BOMs, sophisticated dependency management, and plugin configuration.
• Applying vulnerability and risk reduction measures by upgrading software libraries, migrating platforms, and updating frameworks.
• Utilizing AI tools to streamline daily responsibilities, and developing custom AI-driven skills as required.
• Participating in daily standups to share progress, clarify priorities, and proactively resolve obstacles.
• Engaging in performance testing and tuning to ensure high-availability and optimal efficiency of critical applications.
• Providing mentoring and facilitating effective knowledge-sharing across cross-functional teams.
• Championing quality, maintainability, and automated testability throughout the software development lifecycle.

Essential Skills, Experience

This position requires demonstrated experience and skills in the following areas:

• Expert-level programming with Java and Jakarta EE (Java Enterprise Edition).
• Deep experience with Spring and Spring Boot for modernizing legacy applications.
• Advanced MVC and build tool proficiency, specifically with Maven (including parent POMs, BOMs, dependency management, and plugin configuration).
• REST API development and integration expertise.
• Advanced troubleshooting abilities for both software and infrastructure issues, particularly in production environments.
• Experience with vulnerability and risk remediation including dependency updates, framework upgrades, and cloud platform migrations (notably to Amazon EKS).
• Proven use of AI tools to optimize and automate software engineering tasks, including the development of custom AI capabilities.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and mentorship skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams.
• Solid critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills applied to daily responsibilities.

Preferred candidates may also possess:

• Hands-on experience deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Direct JBoss and WildFly administration, configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting expertise.
• Strong understanding of resolving JBoss-to-WildFly compatibility concerns during migration projects.
• Commitment to code quality, maintainable architecture, and adherence to S.O.L.I.D. design principles.
• Passion for process automation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field preferred; equivalent experience will be considered.
• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in enterprise-level software development and engineering roles.