Java Developer - Telford
Summary
This role involves working within a Scrum team on a government programme to build and support services on Kubernetes platforms using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS. The position requires technical leadership, cloud-native engineering practices, and experience with CI/CD pipelines and observability tools.
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements:- Java 17+ and Spring Boot 3+ experience
- Kubernetes and containerised application delivery experience
- Helm experience
- GitLab CI/CD pipeline experience
- Observability tooling experience such as OpenSearch, Grafana, Prometheus, or Dynatrace
- Technical leadership experience where applicable
- Agile delivery experience
- Java and Spring Boot experience
- Microservices design and development experience
- Containerisation experience
- Observability and monitoring experience
- AWS experience
- HMRC Container Platform (HCP) experience where applicable
- Coaching and mentoring capability
- Stakeholder management experience
- Strong communication and team engagement skills
- Quality-driven approach
- Desirable experience with Maven
- Desirable experience with Git or GitLab
- Desirable experience with React or JavaScript
- Desirable experience with OpenAPI
- Desirable experience with OAuth2 or OpenID
- Desirable experience with JUnit or Mockito
- Desirable experience with Grafana or Kibana
- Desirable experience with microservices architecture
- Desirable experience with Agile Scrum delivery
- Desirable experience with Selenium or Playwright
- Work within a Scrum team delivering common and technical components for a large government programme
- Build and support services deployed onto Kubernetes platforms, with a focus on deployment, automation, and operational excellence
- Contribute to technical design, engineering standards, and Agile delivery
- Work closely with application teams to deliver and manage services on Kubernetes
- Support application deployment, management, automation, and pipeline development
- Help teams adopt cloud-native engineering practices and platform standards
- Provide technical leadership within a Java engineering team
- Support delivery of applications hosted on Kubernetes and HMRC Container Platform (HCP)
- Coach engineers, engage stakeholders, and drive quality-focused delivery
- AWS
- OpenSearch
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Dynatrace
- Git
- GitLab
- Grafana
- Helm
- Support
- JUnit
- Java
- JavaScript
- Kibana
- Kubernetes
- Maven
- OpenAPI
- OpenID
- Prometheus
- REST
- React
- Selenium
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- microservices
- Playwright
More:
We are recruiting for three Java Developer roles for one of our local clients on a 6-month+ contract. The roles are hybrid, with two days a week in Telford and the rest working from home, and are offered at £600 to £640 per day inside IR35. These positions sit within a large government programme and involve working with modern Kubernetes-based platforms, cloud-native engineering practices, and technical leadership across Java engineering teams.
last updated 33 week of 2026