DevOps Engineer Job at Akaasa Technologies, Richfield, MN

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  • Akaasa Technologies
  • Richfield, MN

Job Description

Manager note: In these initial conversations, I focused on real-world engineering experiences, typical challenges engineers face, problem-solving ability, and foundational technical skills. In multiple cases, candidates were familiar with certain technologies only at a high level or through their peers but lacked hands-on experience . Others stated they had worked with the required tools and technologies yet were unable to answer basic questions about them.


For example, in a couple of interviews, candidates mentioned implementing an enterprise API gateway for a client. When asked which API gateway was used and what benefits it provided , they were unable to respond.

Questions:

Domain 3-4 squads

Front End

Ticket resolution

Fully backend and platform focus Team the position is on

  • Team : 5 engineers
  • Enterprise team that works across a lot of engineering teams

Responsible for: Own and maintain API gateways and token services for OAuth flows

  • Support a lot of other security as it pertains to API's

Looking for a DevOps engineer (Software Engineer with DevOps experience)

  • Building deploying and operating
    • Focused in Automation
  • Java Shop, want them to work with Team once DevOps is established

Technology:

Kubernetes

Helm Charts

Java and Spring boot

AWS

  • EKS Elastic Kubernetes Service

API gateway and Security experience

NICE TO HAVE:

GitHub / GitOps

IAAS Terraform

API Gateway

Methodologies:

Pair Programming every story is 2 engineers per story

CI/CD GitHub Actions



JOB TITLE DevOps Engineer



Hybrid , onsite 2-3 times a week. Local candidates only

Note:

Recent local project is must from MN.

Looking for a DevOps engineer (Software Engineer with DevOps experience)

Candidat with development background, role is 60% DevOps, 40% Backend development.





Tell us about your department:
The Enterprise API Management team builds and manages solutions to support the
enterprise API management capability along with supporting enterprise token
services. We are committed to delivering the right software at the right time. This
role is on an engineering team that encourages pair programming and test-driven
development (TDD)



Project Description:



Position Summary/Job Description:
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our Enterprise API Management team. The successful candidate will be responsible for building, deploying, and operating our platform and services, with an emphasis on automation, reliability, and secure-by-default delivery. This role partners closely with engineers through collaboration and pair programming to improve CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting practices, and operational readiness, and it also requires some software development experience (e.g., ability to read/debug code and contribute when needed). Technologies involved include Kubernetes, Helm charts, Java/Spring Boot, AWS offerings (certification preferred), and API platform capabilities such as API Gateway and security.



Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?



Kubernetes 5+ Years

Helm Charts 4+ Years

AWS (core offerings; certification preferred) 5+ Years

Java and Spring Boot 5+ Years

API Security 5+ Years


What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

CI/CD and GitOps
Infrastructure-as-Code experience (e.g., Terraform / CloudFormation )

API Gateway /API Management experience
Observability tooling (logging/metrics/tracing) and on-call readiness

Lua Programming
Collaborative delivery practices (pair programming, code reviews)





Interview Panel of 1-2 Devs + Hiring Manager: 1.5 hour: prefer Onsite Panel Interview
30 minutes Java Coding exercise
45-60 minutes technical questions based on experience, related to: DevOps, Java and Spring framework

Job Tags

Local area

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