Senior API Infrastructure Platform Engineer
Note : This role is 100% remote.
Develop, maintain, continuously improve, and support both internal and client-facing IT infrastructure for API hosting. Provides expert infrastructure oversight, ensuring successful delivery and performance of IT services for our clients and the fulfilment of our obligations and Service Levels Targets.
Principal Responsibilities:
• Assist Lead Engineer with administrative functions (including setup, deployment, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting) related to API Platforms and Applications (Apigee Private Cloud)
• Provide technical guidance on API architecture
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders on technical questions and troubleshooting
• Understand ongoing customer engineering requests from software engineering teams
• Ensure stability critical to APIs.
• Assist lead engineer with creating middleware related documentation and diagrams
• Support Life Cycle Management
• Ability to deliver multiple concurrent agile projects/tasks on time and a focus on quality
• Participate in DR tests
• Be willing to follow a rigorous ITIL-based process
Required:
Apigee or API related platform experience in one of the following technologies (MuleSoft, Kong, AWS API Gateway, etc..)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related study and/or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in web proxy and API troubleshooting on Linux Platforms
• 5+ years in Distributed Linux Skills and troubleshooting
• 5+ years in fundamentals of Monitoring Linux Systems and Middleware
• 5+ years in Restful APIs, OAuth, API Management
• Working knowledge of on-premise/cloud-based infrastructures, SDLC pipelines, and deployments/configurations and definition/evangelism of best practices/standards
• Demonstrates working knowledge of distributed systems, web infrastructure and protocols, network architectures and distributed transaction processing.
• Hands on experience with scripting for automation (Shell, Python, etc..)
• Excellent troubleshooting skills