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