Senior Platform Engineer API

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Professional Platform Engineering job designsdevelopsandmaintainsdigital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. With minimal supervision this job collaborates with cross functional teams to define design and implement new features to meet user needs and business goals and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing cleanefficientand scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging complex issues. This job alsoparticipatesin code reviews tomaintainhigh code quality and share knowledge with platform engineering team members.

Essential Functions

• AUTOMATION: Leads the application of internal software deployment platform continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
• COLLABORATION: Partners with cross functional team of product managers designers and other engineers to gather complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains complex unit tests and integration tests and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software applying test driven development as needed.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Recommends options for improving the software development and deployment processes and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
• DOCUMENTATION: Creates and maintains comprehensive documentation for complex software applications deployment processes and system configurations.
• TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.

Minimum and Preferred Qualifications

Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven experience with API management platforms such as Kong Broadcom Layer7 Google Apigee or equivalent technologies.

Strong understanding of API gateway architecture traffic management rate limiting and security policies.

Expertise in API lifecycle management including design publishing versioning and retirement.

Hands-on experience with authentication and authorization standards (OAuth 2.0 JWT OpenID Connect).

Proficiency in automation and scripting for API deployment and configuration (Python Shell Ansible).

Familiarity with CI/CD integration and DevOps practices for API platforms.

Knowledge of monitoring and analytics for API performance and usage (e.g. Prometheus Grafana).

Exposure to cloud-native API solutions and containerization (Docker Kubernetes).

Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to lead complex API platform initiatives.

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