About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Java 17+ and Spring Boot 3+ experienceKubernetes and containerised application delivery experienceHelm experienceGitLab CI/CD pipeline experienceObservability tooling experience such as OpenSearch, Grafana, Prometheus, or DynatraceTechnical leadership experience where applicableAgile delivery experienceJava and Spring Boot experienceMicroservices design and development experienceContainerisation experienceObservability and monitoring experienceAWS experienceHMRC Container Platform (HCP) experience where applicableCoaching and mentoring capabilityStakeholder management experienceStrong communication and team engagement skillsQuality-driven approachDesirable experience with MavenDesirable experience with Git or GitLabDesirable experience with React or JavaScriptDesirable experience with OpenAPIDesirable experience with OAuth2 or OpenIDDesirable experience with JUnit or MockitoDesirable experience with Grafana or KibanaDesirable experience with microservices architectureDesirable experience with Agile Scrum deliveryDesirable experience with Selenium or Playwright Responsibilities: Work within a Scrum team delivering common and technical components for a large government programmeBuild and support services deployed onto Kubernetes platforms, with a focus on deployment, automation, and operational excellenceContribute to technical design, engineering standards, and Agile deliveryWork closely with application teams to deliver and manage services on KubernetesSupport application deployment, management, automation, and pipeline developmentHelp teams adopt cloud-native engineering practices and platform standardsProvide technical leadership within a Java engineering teamSupport delivery of applications hosted on Kubernetes and HMRC Container Platform (HCP)Coach engineers, engage stakeholders, and drive quality-focused delivery Technologies: AWSOpenSearchCI/CDCloudDynatraceGitGitLabGrafanaHelmSupportJUnitJavaJavaScriptKibanaKubernetesMavenOpenAPIOpenIDPrometheusRESTReactSeleniumSpringSpring BootmicroservicesPlaywright 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 34 week of 2026