Senior Java DevOps Engineer - Security & Resilience Lead

re-zoo-me; Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

re-zoo-me is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Tampa, FL, to join client projects focused on improving security, release reliability, maintainability, and operational resilience of critical banking applications.

The role blends senior software engineering, DevOps, SRE, test automation, application security, and legacy modernization with hands‑on coding and configuration. Expect collaboration with client teams and direct remediation work.

Qualifications

• 5+ Years of hands‑on Java development of production applications.
• Must have experience in a forward deployed, business analyst, or customer facing role.
• Must actively write and debug code, with recent experience directly involving production code or configuration changes made within the last 12-18 months.
• Advanced Java and JVM development, with strong TypeScript skills valued for Node.js environments.
• Practical experience with Spring or similar enterprise frameworks.
• Proficiency in Test-Driven Development, automated testing, and familiarity with multiple test frameworks and automation approaches.
• Capability to develop unit and integration tests and support deployment smoke testing.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, quality gates, and application deployments.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized application delivery.
• Working knowledge of OpenShift, Kubernetes, or comparable container platforms.
• Competence in Linux command-line tools and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with build tools such as Maven, Gradle, or npm.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate directly with development teams to identify and resolve issues related to testing, security, release, deployment, resilience, and legacy technologies.
• Review application code, dependencies, test coverage, runtime configurations, deployment processes, logs, monitoring systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Write, debug, test, review, and enhance production application code and configurations.
• Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, component, regression, and deployment smoke tests.
• Apply Test-Driven Development practices and select appropriate testing approaches with guidance as needed.
• Source test data and apply masking techniques to protect sensitive information in lower environments.
• Investigate vulnerabilities and dependency risks, identify root causes, implement secure remediation, and conduct regression testing.
• Upgrade Java/JVM or NPM runtimes, Spring components, libraries, dependencies, base images, operating systems, and installed software.
• Assist in implementing automated and continuous dependency updates using Renovate or comparable tools.
• Support modernization efforts for legacy applications and middleware stacks, including WebSphere or WebLogic when applicable.
• Containerize applications using Docker and deploy or support them on OpenShift platforms.
• Enhance Git workflows, branch management, pull requests, and code-review processes.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, deployment validation, and rollback procedures.
• Automate database changes using Liquibase or similar migration tools.
• Support application and environment automation through Ansible or equivalent tools.
• Apply secure coding patterns and adhere to standards for secrets management, authentication, authorization, and handling sensitive data.
• Improve structured logging, exception handling, health checks, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and operational alerts.
• Support highly available and resilient deployment strategies.
• Troubleshoot production and non-production issues using code analysis, SQL, logs, metrics, traces, and diagnostic tools.
• Communicate progress, risks, technical decisions, blockers, and dependencies to engineering, security, architecture, operations, project management, and client stakeholders.
• Document implemented solutions and facilitate knowledge transfer to development and support teams.
• Own a defined technical workstream from assessment and implementation through testing, deployment, and stabilization.

Skills

Java

TypeScript

Spring

CI/CD

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux

Maven/Gradle

NPM

Tools

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Maven/Gradle

NPM

Job description

re-zoo-me is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Tampa, FL, to join client projects focused on improving security, release reliability, maintainability, and operational resilience of critical banking applications.

The role blends senior software engineering, DevOps, SRE, test automation, application security, and legacy modernization with hands‑on coding and configuration. Expect collaboration with client teams and direct remediation work.