Principal Technical Architect – AWS & Java Applications

Principal Technical Architect – AWS & Java Applications

Principal Technical Architect – AWS & Java Applications

• Full Time
• Perungudi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
• With Professional Experience
• 10 / 26 / 25

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About Hapag-Lloyd

With a fleet of 287 modern container ships and a Vessel Capacity 2.2 million TEU, as well as a Container Capacity 3.2 million TEU including one of the world’s largest and most modern reefer container fleets, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. In the Liner Shipping segment, the Company has around 13.500 employees and 400 offices in 139 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 11.9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 114 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports across the world. In the Terminal & Infrastructure segment, Hapag-Lloyd has stakes in 20 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India, and North Africa. The roughly 2.600 employees assigned to the Terminal & Infrastructure segment deal with terminal-related activities and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations.

THE ROLE – P rincipal Technical Architect

Join us on a transformative journey as we migrate our document and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) platform from mainframe-based applications to a cloud-based platform on AWS. As Principal Technical Architect with a strong background in software engineering, you'll play the key role in driving this transformation by setting among our workstreams, designing and implementing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions that leverage Infrastructure as Code ( IaC ) principles and DevOps practices. You'll work closely with our software development teams to ensure that our cloud infrastructure is optimized for our applications, and that our applications are designed to take full advantage of the cloud infrastructure, with development processes aligned with cloud best practices.

You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to make key technical decisions, drive technical excellence, and ensure that our cloud infrastructure and applications are highly performant, secure, and scalable. Your expertise will be crucial in shaping the future of our cloud infrastructure and applications, and in driving the adoption of cloud technologies and practices across our team.

If you're passionate about cloud computing, software development, and driving technical innovation with the goal of enabling a seamless ly operating , scalable platform for our users , we invite you to apply and help shape the future of our cloud infrastructure and applications.

Your Responsibilities

Set infrastructure standards among our platform teams

Shape the roadmap for our AWS infrastructure team

Work closely within a cross-functional Product team in which you enable the application developers by understanding requirements, designing, & implementing the solutions with AWS resources

Combine theoretical best practices such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework with your personal experience to find the best solution for our current challenges

Engage in Platform & Enterprise Architecture rounds to promote company-wide adoption

Evaluate and implement security and compliance strategies, ensuring cloud environments meet industry & internal standards as efficiently as possible

Bring in your experience by promoting technical advancements

Research trends and evaluate their adoption in our practical world ( e.g. GenAI, automation.. )

Continually optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, security, and performance to maximize reliability , efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our platform.

Design processes for collaboration with operation & application teams

Lead migration projects from initial assessment to operating & optimization

Create cloud migration and infrastructure management processes, ensuring smooth transitions , continuous optimization and automation .

Team management & leadership

What we are looking for

Technical

Proven experience with a wide range of AWS services :

Docker, ECS, Fargate

EC2

EKS

& more ..

Proven ability to design and implement performing systems that can handle high load :

H igh performance

High throughput

S calable systems

Multi-threading / high parallelization

Ensuring applications can handle high loads & meet business needs

CI / CD

Maven, NPM, GitLab CI, AWS CodeBuild

A utomation tools like Renovate Bot

Semantic Release to streamline deployments

Security & Compliance

AWS Security Hub

Checkmarx

D emonstrating a strong security awareness with experience in threat modeling and related practices

C omplex Infrastructure as Code

AWS CDK with TypeScript

Alternative : T erraform and willing to learn CDK

Database & Storage :

M anaging cloud-based relational databases like MySQL

schema management using Liquibase

NoSQL databases like MongoDB

S calable storage solutions like Amazon S3.

Software Engineering : Java programming on enterprise level   , E xperience with Spring Boot

Messaging Systems : Kafka , Q ueueing systems

Monitoring & Observability : Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch , Datadog , Open Telemetry

Software Engineering : Strong foundation in Java programming on enterprise level and experience with Spring Boot

Persona l

You are extremely passionate about your role

You want to deliver value to the team and organization

You want to fully understand a problem, come up with solutions & implement them to see your work running smoothly in production

You have software engineering background

You have worked effectively in multinational teams

You can communicate effectively in English

You can prove your impressive expertise by either

Having 8 + years of experience in a similar role & tech stack or

Having AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certificate or

Having strong project references in which you played a key role

You don’t like manual work and want to automate recurring tasks

You like to work independently and with teammates

You want to drive solutions, not just sit in the back-seat

Contact person

Sunaimalar Arunjunaiselvam HR Talent Acquisition Manager

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