ENGINEERING LEAD
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jan 23, 2026.
1. Cloud-Native Architecture & Modernization
Lead migration from monolith/EC2 to scalable AWS EKS microservices.
Define cloud-native patterns: service mesh, autoscaling (HPA/VPA), 12-factor principles.
Implement Kubernetes best practices: advanced probes, externalized configs, graceful shutdowns, and rolling updates.
2. Modern Java Engineering
Build high-performance REST services using Spring Boot 2.x/3.x.
Drive Java upgrades (8 ? 17/21), resolving module system and compatibility issues.
Optimize performance using Streams, CompletableFuture, and container-aware JVM tuning.
3. DevOps, EKS & Platform Engineering
Partner with DevOps on CI/CD, IaC, and container-first workflows.
Optimize container images and resource configs.
Implement observability: Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, centralized logs, distributed tracing.
4. Production Excellence & Operational Ownership
Lead P1/P2 incident troubleshooting and RCA.
Implement resilience patterns: circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, fallbacks, idempotency.
Improve reliability using chaos testing, fault injection, and reliability scorecards.
Required Qualifications & Skills (Concise Version)
Experience
7+ years building large-scale backend systems.
End-to-end ownership of microservices-from design to production.
Java Expertise
Strong proficiency in Java 8+ (incl. Java 11/17/21).
Deep knowledge of Streams, concurrency, memory models, JVM tuning, and GC behavior.
Microservices & Frameworks
Advanced Spring Boot 2.x/3.x expertise (Data, Security, Actuator).
Experience with REST, event-driven systems, and Kafka/RabbitMQ.
Cloud-Native & AWS
Hands-on AWS EKS deployment and optimization.
Solid AWS experience: EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, ECR, ALB/NLB.
Strong Docker/OCI containerization skills.
Resilience, Observability & Performance
Experience implementing circuit breakers, retries, fallbacks, rate limiting.
Skilled with profiling tools (Flight Recorder, Mission Control, JFR).
DevOps & CI/CD
CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation preferred).
Experience with automated testing frameworks and quality gates.