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Job Posted: 3 days ago

Salary: £ 600 - 640 / Day
Job Type: Contract
Location: Telford, Shropshire

Expire in: 24 days

Job Description

Hays are now looking for X3 Java Developers for one of our local clients:

£600 - £640 p/d Inside IR35
Hybrid - 2 days a week in Telford, the rest is WFH
6 months+ contract

Role 1 - Java Engineer (Kubernetes Platform Delivery)
What you'll be doing
-Working within a Scrum team delivering common and technical components for a large government programme.
-Building and supporting services deployed onto Kubernetes platforms, with a focus on deployment, automation and operational excellence.
-Contributing to technical design, engineering standards and Agile delivery.

What we're looking for
-Java 17+ / Spring Boot 3+
-Kubernetes and containerised application delivery
-Helm
-GitLab CI/CD pipelines
-Observability tooling (OpenSearch, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace etc.)
-Technical leadership experience
-Agile delivery experience

Role 2 - Java Engineer with Helm
What you'll be doing
-Working closely with application teams to deliver and manage services on Kubernetes.
-Supporting application deployment, management, automation and pipeline development.
-Helping teams adopt cloud-native engineering practices and platform standards.

What we're looking for
-Java and Spring Boot
-Kubernetes
-Helm (key requirement)
-Microservices design and development
-GitLab CI/CD pipelines
-Containerisation
-Observability and monitoring
-AWS

Role 3 - Senior Java Engineer (HCP / Technical Leadership)
What you'll be doing
-Providing technical leadership within a Java engineering team.
-Supporting delivery of applications hosted on Kubernetes and HMRC Container Platform (HCP).
-Coaching engineers, engaging stakeholders and driving quality-focused delivery.

What we're looking for
-Java
-Kubernetes
-HMRC Container Platform (HCP) experience
-Technical leadership experience
-Coaching and mentoring capability
-Stakeholder management
-Strong communication and team engagement skills
-Quality-driven approach

Desirable across all three roles
Maven
Git / GitLab
React / JavaScript
OpenAPI
OAuth2 / OpenID
JUnit / Mockito
AWS
Grafana / Kibana
Microservices architecture
Agile Scrum delivery
Selenium / Playwright
Java 17+ / Spring Boot 3+ (where not already listed as core)

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