API Gateway Engineer

Job Title: API Gateway Engineer

Location: Bellevue WA / Atlanta GA

Duration: / Term: 6 months

Job Description:

Experience Desired: 8 Years.

Key required skills

• The Senior Engineer API Gateway & Production Support is responsible for deploying managing and optimizing API gateway solutions as well as ensuring reliable production operations for business-critical applications.
• This role works closely with development operations and security teams to deliver robust APIs and maintain high service availability.
• Responsibilities: API Gateway configuration and support for enterprise applications
• Design implement and maintain API gateway configurations (e.g. Apigee Kong AWS API Gateway etc.).
• Build secure scalable and highly available API infrastructure.
• Implement policies for authentication authorization rate limiting caching and monitoring. - Collaborate with development teams on API lifecycle management onboarding and documentation.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and optimize API traffic handling.
• Troubleshoot production issues related to API connectivity and latency.
• Provide L2/L3 support for API gateways and related production environments.
• Monitor health performance and capacity of production systems.
• Diagnose and resolve incidents ensuring rapid response and clear communication.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.
• Coordinate deployments patches and upgrades with minimal downtime.
• Develop and maintain runbooks knowledge base articles and standard operating procedures. Security & Compliance: Implement API security best practices and ensure compliance with organizational policies. Schedule regular security reviews vulnerability assessments and audits.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: - Communicate effectively with internal teams (Dev QA Security Infra) and external partners. - Participate in architectural reviews and production readiness assessments.

Skills: -

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related discipline.
• 5 years of experience in API gateway technologies and production support.
• Strong expertise in API design management and security (REST OAuth2 JWT etc.).
• Hands-on experience with one or more API gateways: Apigee Kong AWS API Gateway Azure API Management etc.
• Expert in troubleshooting production incidents in cloud or on-prem environments.
• Proficiency with automation tools (Python Shell Ansible Jenkins etc.).
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Datadog ELK Prometheus Grafana).
• Strong understanding of network protocols firewalls load balancers and DNS.
• Excellent problem-solving analytical and communication skills.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Key Skills:

API Architecture API Gateway Apigee kong DevOps Python Java