IN-Senior Associate_ Microservices Developer with Kubernetes_AppTech _Advisory_Mumbaia

Job Description & Summary: A career within Technology Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to bring our clients a competitive advantage through defining their technology objectives, assessing solution options, and devising architectural solutions that help them achieve both strategic goals and meet operational requirements. We help build software and design data platforms, manage large volumes of client data, develop compliance procedures for data management, and continually researching new technologies to drive innovation and sustainable change. 

Responsibilities: 

· Set up technical standards and governance structure for the enterprise. 

· Deep expertise in deploying and managing Kubernetes at scale in production environments. 

· Familiarity with cloud-native tools and patterns such as Istio, Envoy, or Prometheus for microservices monitoring and management. 

· Experience with event-driven systems using tools like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS for inter-service communication. 

· Experience with multi-cloud deployments and hybrid cloud strategies. 

· Experience with gRPC for high-performance communication between microservices. 

· Familiarity with service mesh tools like Istio or Linkerd for managing service-to service communication, observability, and security. 

· Experience with OAuth 2.0, JWT, and other authentication/authorization protocols. 

· Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation. 

· Proficiency in CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Travis CI for automating the deployment process. 

· Experience with multi-cloud deployments and hybrid cloud strategies. 

· Work closely with DevOps engineers to ensure seamless deployment, monitoring, and scaling of microservices in production environments. 

· Communicate effectively with frontend and backend teams to ensure smooth integration between microservices and other parts of the application. 

· Write clear, concise documentation for the developed microservices, APIs, and deployment procedures. Ensure that new features are documented and that technical debt is minimized. 

· Design microservices to be horizontally scalable and ensure the application can handle varying traffic loads. 

· Communicate effectively with frontend and backend teams to ensure smooth integration between microservices and other parts of the application. 

· Write unit and integration tests to ensure the quality of microservices. Use testing frameworks like JUnit, TestNG, or Mocha. 

· Familiar with Agile/Scrum development methodologies. 

· Ability to work in cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with stakeholders. 

Mandatory skill sets: 

** Minimum 5 years experience in IT field, with Minimum 2 years in Banking / Financial Sector after completion of under graduation.** 

Mandatory Certifications (Anyone):  

· Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)  

· Certified Kubernetes  

· Application Developer (CKAD)  

· Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)  

· Microsoft Certified: AzureKubernetes Service (AKS) Developer Associate  

· Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration 

Technical Skills:  

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. Service Design: Designing independently deployable services with well-defined responsibilities (Single Responsibility Principle). 

· Frameworks: Spring Boot (Java), Express.js (Node.js), Gin/Gorilla (Go), FastAPI/ Flask (Python) 

· Database Integration 

• SQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL 

• NoSQL: MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra 

• Database per service pattern: Avoid shared DBs across services. 

· Expertise in Docker for containerization, Kubernetes for orchestrating and managing containerized microservices at scale. 

Hands-on experience with cloud services like AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda), Google Cloud (GKE, Cloud Run), or Azure (AKS). Experience with serverless architecture is a plus. 

· Expertise in designing RESTful APIs and using tools like Swagger/OpenAPI for API documentation. 

API security: 

• OAuth2.0 / OpenID Connect 

• JWT-based authentication 

Preferred skill sets: 

· Knowledge of securing APIs and microservices using best practices for encryption, token-based authentication, and other security measures. 

Knowledge of Helm for packaging and deploying Kubernetes applications. 

Years of experience required: 

5+ yrs 

Education qualification: 

BE/ BTech in (Computer Science/Computer Science & Engineering/ Information Technology/ Software Engineering/ Electronics & Communications Engineering or equivalent degree in relevant discipline) or MCA or MTech/ MSc in (Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Electronic & Communications Engineering) from recognized University/ Institute.