To be considered for work, A CANDIDATE MUST BE EITHER A U.S. CITIZEN - OR - PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIEN (No H1 visa holders) with three or more years of U.S. residency as a Permanent Resident Alien.

Senior Java Developer focused on architecting microservices with Spring Boot + Kafka on Red Hat OpenShift. This consultant will deploy, manage and scale Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.  Also will configure, manage and monitor containerized applications running on Kubernetes or OpenShift in a role that  balances new development with critical maintenance and testing responsibilities. 

Contract is for  8 months with a high  likelihood of last longer.   

Required ( Resume must show this!):

• 8+ years Java/JEE microservices development with Spring REST and Spring Boot 
• 4 + year -f integrating KAFKA for Event Driven Workflows
• 2 years of KAFKA Administration 
• 1 year using AI Tools such as Claude Code 
• 4 years working with Red Hat OpenShift Container platform 
• 4 years developing automated unit tests with JUnit 
• 4 years Eclipse or Spring Tool Suite or JBoss studio – 4 years
• 3 + years Github, JIRA 
• 2 + years Oracle Exadata 

  Preferred Skills:

• CI/CD Pipeline using GitHub Actions
• Agile methodologies and working as Scrum Master
• Maven