RQ11605 - Software Developer - Senior

Must Have:

A DevOps specialist in production support ensures seamless system reliability by rapidly diagnosing and remediating issues, optimizing infrastructure and automation, and driving continuous improvements through collaboration and data-driven recommendations.

1. Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis (RCA) – Quickly diagnose production issues, identify underlying causes, and recommend remediation strategies.
2. Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise – Deep understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking, security, scaling, and resilience.
3. CI/CD & Automation – Proficiency in building robust pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and automated recovery workflows.
4. Monitoring, Observability & Performance Tuning – able to optimize systems for reliability.
5. Collaboration & Continuous Improvement – Works with cross-functional teams to propose fixes, lead postmortems, and enhance processes and architectures.

Nice to Have:

Prior Development experience - Azure (CI/CD), Java, Microservices, Kubernetes (AKS), Containers, SQL Server, Logic Apps, Power Platform

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

DevOps Experiences - 25%

Demonstrated 5+ years experience in setting up development environments and mechanism using tools such as Azure DevOps, pipeline, or similar tools.

Demonstrated 5+ years' experience in build tools like Git, Kubernetes, Maven, Docker for continuous integration.

Demonstrated 5+ years' experience in container management and orchestration to automate application deployment, application scaling/clustering, monitoring, and others.

Demonstrated 5+ years' experience in integration experience in building and using APIs or other integration endpoints.

Demonstrated experience applying industry web, architectural and security standards, and best practices.

JAVA & Webservices, Cloud Computing Experiences - 45%

Demonstrated 10+ years' experience in designing and developing secure RESTful/Soap APIs web services and microservices with Java/JEE, Spring Framework, SQL/NoSQL database, Message Queue, etc.

Demonstrated experience in developing frontend applications using REACT/Angular, JSON, HTML/CSS/XML/XPath to build complex and efficient web applications.

Demonstrated experience and skills to design, develop and maintain microservices-based backend systems, containerize, and deploy applications using Docker and orchestrate them with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Good knowledge of DevOps pipeline, IAM, OAuth, authentication, and authorization.

Has Experience in developing Java applications that follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) at the AA level.

RPA/ML and Microsoft Low-Code Experience - 20%

Demonstrated knowledge and experience with AI, LLM and Machine Learning, such as Azure Document Intelligence, Cloud Foundry, OpenAI, Cognitive Search etc.

Demonstrated knowledge of OCR, information extraction/classification, and experience in training AI models based on business requirements.

Demonstrated 5+ experience in developing, testing, and implementing complex system solutions using Microsoft Power Automate Robotics Process Automation (RPA).

Demonstrated experience and skills in using Logic Apps, Power Automate flows and desktop flows to build end-to-end RPA/ML automation solutions.

Demonstrated experience and skills to integrate with other systems and services to implement end-to-end solutions.

Demonstrated experience in documenting Solution Design Documents (SDD) based on business requirements and planning and executing the development tasks.

Testing and Reporting - 5%

Demonstrated experience in developing and executing test scenarios to perform unit, integration, and performance testing.

Expert in leveraging Postman/ReadyAPI/Soap UI/JMeter tools to conduct test cases or scenarios.

Demonstrated experience in using Power BI to pull information out and generate reports for a different purpose.

Communication and Teamwork - 5%

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with IT/ Business throughout the Software Development Life Cycle and production support.

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills

Demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

When requested, the consultant shall establish a communication and reporting process that is acceptable to the Cluster/Ministry/Organization. The objective of this process is to ensure an effective flow of communications among all project stakeholders on the progress of deliverables and milestones; timely identification of issues to facilitate resolution/decisions.