Application Engineer - Azure Manager

We are seeking an Application Engineer - Azure Manager to lead the design and architecture of cloud-based applications on the Azure platform. You will be responsible for leading development efforts, ensuring security and compliance, optimizing application performance, and troubleshooting technical issues. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in developing Microservices with Spring Boot and 4 years of experience with Azure native development and other Azure services.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Application Architecture & Development: Lead the design and architecture of cloud-based applications on the Azure platform. Lead the development of applications using Azure services and technologies, and write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in languages such as Java.
• Security & Compliance: Lead the implementation of security best practices, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations on Azure. Design secure network architectures, implement access controls, and monitor for security threats.
• Performance Optimization: Lead efforts to optimize application performance on Azure by implementing caching mechanisms, load balancing, and other techniques.
• Troubleshooting: Lead the investigation and resolution of technical issues related to application deployment, performance, and availability on Azure.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and provide technical leadership and guidance to the team.

Skills Required

• Strong software development experience in Java (preferably Java 21+).
• Extensive hands-on experience in designing and developing application backends using frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Jersey, JPA, Hibernate, and technologies like SQL, Linux, JSON, XML, OAuth, etc.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in developing Microservices using Spring Boot and gRPC.
• A minimum of 4 years of experience in Azure native development using Functions, Queue Storage, Stream, S3, Monitor, Key Vault, IAM.
• A minimum of 4 years of experience in using various Azure services like Virtual Machines, Container Service, AKS, IAM, Storage, Autoscaling, Load balancer, etc., with a good understanding of architectural best practices.
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database systems.
• Experience with Git, Maven, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in developing code for both containerized (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless (Functions) environments.
• Proven experience as a Lead Azure Cloud Application Engineer or in a similar leadership role.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence client business and IT teams.