Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, ARK Infotech Spectrum, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today! **Role: Azure Expert (Java Specialist)** **Location: Location: Candidate should be local to below locations and should be ready to work from office:** - Alpharetta, GA - Rancho, CA - Oakland / San Francisco, CA **Key Responsibilities** - Design and implement serverless solutions using Azure Functions and Azure Durable Functions with Java. - Build event driven architectures leveraging Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Grid. - Deploy, manage, and optimize containerized Java applications on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). - Integrate Azure services into enterprise Java applications ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. - Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines for Java based workloads. - Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in distributed systems and microservices environments. **Skills/Experience:** - Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems - Actively participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often - Develops high quality and production ready software by using best practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure - Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end to end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health - Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything - Tests and ensures quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automatiain technical documentation to support the testing, installation, operations, deployment and maintenance of products - Proven ability to effectively present data to facilitate understanding of findings - Ability to solve complex problems using analytical and creative problem solving skills for design, development and testing of systems - Knowledge of agile development methodologies - Lifelong learner, process improver **Required Skills: Required Skills & Expertise** - Very strong hands-on experience with: - Azure Functions and Azure Durable Functions using Java - Azure Service Bus (messaging and queueing) - Azure Event Grid (event routing and pub/sub) - Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (container orchestration) - Proficiency in Java 11+, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture. - Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Isac) tools like Terraform or Bicep. - Experience with monitoring and logging using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, etc. - Solid understanding of security best practices in Azure (RBAC, Managed Identities, Networking). - Desired Skills: Preferred Qualifications - Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Developer Associate. - Experience with distributed systems, high availability, and performance tuning for Java workloads.