Application Developer-AWS Cloud FullStack (DevOps)

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role And Responsibilities

Full stack developers should be able to work in the modern cloud-native environment. The cloud-native solutions are built around: Microservices based modular designs, API driven microservices, Continuous release and improvement cycle via Agile, Event Driven Architectures, Containerized workloads, Serverless Architectures, Purposed databases and Progressive Web Applications based on SPA and microfrontends.

A full stack developer should have deep skills in :

Developing rich UI applications based on SPA or microfrontends

Frameworks : ReactJS, Angular (any one of these)

Development of scalable and resilient backend microservices that are based on 12 factor principles , a bounded context of the business domain and expose the functionality via API and event interfaces

Development to data model in modern SQL and No-SQL modelling techniques

Knowledge of microservices purposed programming languages.

Runtimes : java > 8, GraalVM, NodeJS, Python, .Net (proficient in one of these)

Frameworks : Springboot (must have) , Quarkus, Django , Express Js

Proficiency of hyperscaler cloud services and frameworks

Developing Event Driven Applications using Kafka, Zookeeper

Knowledge of cloud-native CI/CD for change release.

Knowledge in Test Driven Development

AWS Full stack developers need to be proficient in running and managing services on AWS :

PaaS : EKS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, ROSA (One container and a serverless compute service), Service mesh

Content : CloudFront, Lambda@Edge

Routing Services : API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Route53

Databases: AWS Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB

Event Driven : SQS, SNS, Kinesis Streams, Dynamo Streams, AWS MQ, AWS MSKafka (at least one messaging and one streaming service)

Observability: CloudWatch, X-Ray, Event-Bus

DevSecOps : CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CodeCommit, Tekton, KMS, Secrets Manager, IAM, Cognito, OIDC, CloudFormation, SAM, BeansTalk

Storage : S3

Networking : VPC,EC2.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Strong knowledge of cloud-native development (Microservices, API-driven design, Event-Driven Architecture, Containerization, Serverless, CI/CD).
• Proficiency in frontend frameworks: ReactJS or Angular (SPA, microfrontends).
• Experience in backend microservices development using 12-factor principles and API/event interfaces.
• Skilled in SQL and NoSQL data modeling.
• Proficiency in at least one runtime: Java (Spring Boot required), NodeJS, Python, .NET.
• Familiarity with frameworks: Spring Boot (must), Quarkus, Django, Express.js.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services: EKS/ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora/RDS/DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/Kinesis, CloudFront, Route53, S3, VPC.
• Knowledge of event-driven systems (Kafka, Zookeeper).
• Experience with cloud-native CI/CD and DevSecOps tools (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, IAM, KMS).
• Understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD).