· Minimum hands-on experience of 8 years in core concepts and features introduced in Java 17 or later.

·  Strong expertise in system design, architecture patterns, and best practices (e.g.microservices, event-driven architecture).

·   Strong experience in the framework, including core modules such as Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, and dependency injection, with focus on building scalable and maintainable applications.

·   Proven experience in designing, developing, and maintaining microservices-based applications.

·  Proficiency in building scalable and secure APIs (REST, gRPC and GraphQL), adhering to industry standard practices in versioning, documentation (e.g. OpenAPI specs, Swagger,etc.).

·  Hands-on experience with asynchronous and event-driven architecture and messaging protocol.

· Hands-on experience with cloud-native platform and on-prem/public cloud solutions is a plus. (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure)

·   Experience in containerizing Java applications using Maven plugins to build Docker or any OCI-compliant images, optimize container builds, customize layers, manage container metadata.

·  Proficiency in deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes, including experience with resource management, namespaces, and Helm charts.

· Proficiency with tools like Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Sentinel, Vault secrets