Required experience

- 14+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of delivering scalable, reliable systems
- 6+ years of hands-on AWS experience building multi-service architectures
- 5+ years in technical leadership or lead developer roles
- 3+ years managing or mentoring engineering teams
- 2+ years working with IoT platforms, real-time data systems, or telemetry processing

Required skills

- AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, AWS IoT Core, Dynamo DB, Open Search service, SQS/SNS, Glue, Kinesis, RedShift, ECS / Fargate, Step functions, EventBridge, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, S3 Data Lakes, Secrets Manager, X-Ray, CloudFormation/SAM, IAM, VPC, Network Load Balancer
- Proficiency in Java 17+ (5+ years of hands-on experience)
- Proficiency in Spring Boot 3.x.
- Proficiency in AWS SDK for Java v2
- Proficiency in Lombok
- Proficiency in Lambda PowerTools
- Strong knowledge of Python 3 for AWS Glue/PySpark ETL jobs and Python Shell Scripts
- Proficiency in boto3 SDK for AWS service interactions
- Proficiency in SQL
- Proficiency in OpenSearch Query DSL




- Proficiency in building RESTful APIs
- Proficiency in API Gateway Patterns, Caching strategies, Rate Limiting & Quotas, OpenSearch Integration
- Strong knowledge in OAuth2, JWT Tokens, API Keys, IAM-based auth
- Proven experience with Docker, Maven, Make, AWS ECR, WSL2 and Git
- Proven experience with Architecture Patterns like Event-Driven Architecture, Serverless Architecture, CQRS pattern, Stream processing, ETL pipelines, Microservices Architecture, Circuit Breaker Pattern, Retry Pattern, Dead Letter Queue Pattern, Queue-Based Load Leveling, Multi-Tenancy Patterns
- Robust Knowledge in IoT & Protocols like MQTT, UDP, Binary Protocol, Device Management, Telematics Domain
- Proven experience with Unit Testing (Junit 5), Mocking, Integration testing, Load testing, Contract testing
- Proven experience with Log4j2, X-Ray, Trace Analysis, Service Map, CloudWatch custom metrics, business KPIs, SLI/SLO Tracking

📌 Iot Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Kovai Soft Technologies
📍 Chennai