APIM / API Gateway Engineer – 100% remote

ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Design, develops, tests, debugs, maintains and document program code in accordance with systems quality accredited standards, policies and procedures.
• Identifies business needs, analyzes and creates software solutions.
• Prepares design documentation, test data for unit testing, string and parallel testing.
• Evaluates and recommends solutions (software and hardware) to meet user needs.
• Provides software solutions to resolve customer issues and responds to recommendation for improvements and enhancements.
• Works with business users and development teams to ensure testability.
• Responsible for writing and maintaining test plans, test cases, and test scripts for automation.
• Executes test procedures, logs issues and makes recommendations to solve the problems.
• Responsible for retesting the software, conducting performance and scalability testing.
• Documents evolution of testing procedures for future replication.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Plans, conducts and leads moderate, high budgets projects or multiple projects.
• Manages user requirements to ensure business goals and deadlines are met.
• Trains, mentors and review less experienced team members
• Serves as technical consultant to organization leadership and functional user groups.
• Performs effort estimation for complex projects and tracks development progress.
• Documents, evaluates test results; documents testing script evolution for future replication.
• Works on the most difficult problems that require in-depth analysis of situations, data and various factors.
• Recommends and implements changes to improve the effectiveness of quality assurance strategies.
REQUIREMENTS
• Strong knowledge of API design, authentication(OAuth/OIDC ) patterns and best practices
• Practical experience of automating API gateway configurations as part of DevOps pipeline, CI / CD of gateway installation, Entities in Kubernates platform
• Deep knowledge on MICRO SERVICE , API gateway and Streaming based platform (Confluent, Kafka), RESTFul based APIs and various protocols.
• Experience on executing MySQL queries to manage gateway, OTK and portal database, Linux commands and also good at shell scripting to manage, maintain and diagnose gateway.
• Understanding on Load balancer setup specific to SSL offloading, Persistence connection, GTMs, LTMs, … and Networking concepts like VPN tunneling, IP net stating, DMZ setup, …
Work Arrangement
Location: 100% remote
Duration: 1 year – possible extension but not guaranteed