Microservices Engineer

MKS2 Technologies, LLC is an award-winning high growth small business focused on creating innovative technology solutions in Cyber Security, Instructional Design, and Software Engineering. They are seeking a Microservices Engineer to provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across a large microservices ecosystem, ensuring the reliability and scalability of critical VA systems.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee technical direction for 32 microservices across 6 agile teams (~40 engineers)
• Lead architecture and code reviews for Spring Boot and Ruby microservices
• Review and guide AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) YAML configurations
• Improve health monitoring, DORA metrics, and operational observability
• Identify and recommend solutions to improve scalability, reliability, and availability
• Advise executives on strategic technology decisions and team capacity planning
• Oversee major deployments, high‑risk secret key rotations, and on‑call operations

Requirements:

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Ruby
• Deep experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and version control
• Experience operating in 24/7, 99.999% SLA environments
• Background working with public‑facing APIs and complex backend data integrations
• Proficiency with monitoring tools such as Datadog and Kibana
• Strong executive‑level communication skills
• Mastery in API programming and the Java Spring Framework
• Advanced experience with AWS DevOps and GitHub
• Intermediate experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Octopus Deploy
• Familiarity with large‑scale deployments, microservices patterns, and cloud‑native architectures