Lead API Gateway Engineer / Apigee

Company: Request Technology, LLC
Location: Akron
Posted on: November 19, 2020

Job Description:

We are unable to sponsor for this permanent full-time role Position is bonus eligible Prestigious Fortune 500 Company is currently seeking a Lead Apigee Engineer. Candidate will lead some API Gateway andor Management initiatives on the team. Candidate will be responsible to implement new Apigee API Gateway solutions on the internalon premise cloud and also help maintain and support the existing CA API Gateway platform. The position will be based in the heart of downtown Charlotte. Responsibilities Design, build, maintain and support the Apigee infrastructure Maintain and support the existing CA API Gateway infrastructure Help establish the model of Platform As A Service (PAAS) for our team automate a lot of the manual tasks the team work on to achieve the goal of establishing the Platform As A Service Work on the installation of Apigee On-Prem and on the Company AWS on premise cloud in partnership with Architecture and the Cloud Engineering teams Design and implement API Gateway solutions Lead analytical and consulting working sessions to solve technical problems faced by the application teams trying to onboard to Apigee andor the CA API Gateway Facilitate DR (Disaster Recovery) exercises to ensure that the team are fully prepared in the event of a catastrophe Lead Capacity Planning and Management activities to ensure that the Apigee platform will be able to handle additional transactions in the future Help troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to the Apigee platform and the CA API Gateway. Lead root cause analysis session to understand what causes particular issues in Production and come up with solutions that will prevent them from happening in the future Ensure documentation is created and remain updated for Apigee andor CA Gateway related work Build relationship with the client application teams to understand their business needs and requirements for the Apigee Platform and also coach them on how to use the platform to the full extent. Mentor Junior Engineers to acquire Apigee knowledge and more experiences Qualifications Strong troubleshooting skills in the API Management and Gateway space (Mainly Apigee). Apigee andor CA API Gateway Knowledge Infrastructure build and maintenance, Gateway setup, Oauth configuration Knowledge on Policy creation Template development and operational support within Apigee andor CA API Gateway. Basic knowledge of Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security Cloud platforms (Ideally AWS) Infrastructure automation in AWS Ability to create custom policies in Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python on the Apigee platform Good knowledge of Ansible Ability to write groovy scripts Strong understanding of UNIX operating systems and shell scripting Experience with CICD Tools (Jenkins, GitHub) Good understanding of REST API and JSON Knowledge of existing API Testing Tools (Postman, SoapUI, or any equivalent tools) Experience with high availability, load balancing and failover configurations with Apigee Experience in designing and implementing API platform for high traffic API solutions Ability to apply security, throttling, OAuth 2.0, TLS, certificates, KeyStore, and Trust store for the Apigee platform Experience with Apigee Management APIs and integration to the enterprise systems including Infrastructure Application monitoring, Approval, Authorization and Authentication, Logging, and Continuous integrationContinuous Deploy (CICD), and Developer Portal, etc. Have previously worked on an enterprise platform team that supports multiple Software Development product teams Bachelor s Degree in related field or sufficient prior experiences 4 years of experience supporting Apigee as a Platform Basic knowledge of Amazon Web Services Basic understanding of Cassandra and Zookeeper Basic understanding of Python scripts and be able to update them if needed 4 Years of experience with Ansible 1-2 Years of experience with Groovy scripts 3 Years of experience with JavaScript Additional Qualities Experience on implementing Platform AS A Service (PAAS) Great team player and open to collaborate with others across the Company Enterprise Highly engaged and motivated Great communication skills Willing to go the extra miles to get things done Experience working with offshore teams Development experiences with Apigee Edge Knowledge of Systems and Networking TCP and IP, Switching, Routing, Firewalls, Load Balancing

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