Senior AWS Cloud Engineer: Java & Microservices

Tata Consultancy Services; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Plano, TX seeks a seasoned software engineer to design and implement cloud-native Java applications. You will build scalable services with AWS, embrace event-driven patterns, and ensure security, reliability, and performance across distributed systems.

Key duties include translating requirements into low-level designs, producing interface contracts, and guiding junior engineers through modern DevOps practices and CI/CD workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Java and object-oriented design.
• Experience designing and building cloud-native applications.
• Practical experience with AWS services and architecture.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging platforms such as SQS, SNS, Kafka, or EventBridge.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Experience with microservices or distributed service-oriented systems.
• Experience with Docker and container-based development.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices including testing, code reviews, and CI/CD.
• Experience working in Agile or iterative delivery environments.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to define detailed design and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Familiarity with security best practices, IAM, encryption, and secrets management.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define detailed technical design.
• Translate business and architecture requirements into clear, implementable low-level designs.
• Produce design documentation, interface contracts, and technical estimates.
• Design and develop cloud-native applications.
• Build scalable, resilient, and maintainable services using Java and AWS.
• Apply modern architecture patterns for distributed systems and enterprise platforms.
• Develop event-driven and API-based solutions.
• Design and implement asynchronous workflows using event-driven architecture.
• Build secure, well-documented APIs and service integrations.
• Work with serverless and containerized workloads.
• Develop solutions using AWS Lambda, containers, and orchestration platforms such as ECS or EKS.
• Choose the right runtime model based on performance, scale, and cost considerations.
• Implement distributed system best practices.
• Ensure reliability, fault tolerance, observability, and scalability.
• Address retries, idempotency, latency, and consistency.
• Collaborate across teams and roles.
• Partner with architects, product managers, and technical team members to shape technical solutions.
• Contribute to design reviews and key design decision-making.
• Partner with Quality Assurance engineer to plan, develop, automate, and execute software testing.
• Follow engineering best practices.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code.
• Leverage available AI based coding tools.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and release processes.
• Support application performance and operations.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize production systems.
• Investigate defects, incidents, and performance issues with support and operations teams.
• Ensure security and compliance.
• Follow secure coding practices and cloud security standards.
• Apply least-privilege access, secrets management, and data protection controls.
• Mentor and guide team members.
• Share technical knowledge and support junior and mid-level engineers.
• Help raise the overall engineering quality of the team.

Skills

Java

Object-oriented design

Cloud-native applications

AWS

Event-driven architecture

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Docker

CI/CD

Agile

Security best practices

Infrastructure as Code

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Communication

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Tools

AWS Lambda

ECS

EKS

Kafka

SQS

SNS

EventBridge

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services in Plano, TX seeks a seasoned software engineer to design and implement cloud-native Java applications. You will build scalable services with AWS, embrace event-driven patterns, and ensure security, reliability, and performance across distributed systems.

Key duties include translating requirements into low-level designs, producing interface contracts, and guiding junior engineers through modern DevOps practices and CI/CD workflows.