ECCO Select is a talent acquisition and consulting company specializing in people, process and technology solutions. We provide the talent behind the technology enabling our clients to achieve their goals. For more information about ECCO Select, visit us at www.eccoselect.com.
Position Title: Senior Application Developer / DevOps Engineer
Location Information
Remote – Kansas City
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.
ECCO Select is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. Our policy is to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. Veterans of our United States Uniformed Services are specifically encouraged to apply for ECCO Select opportunities.
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