Java Developer - Telford

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

Responsibilities:

• 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

Technologies:

• 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