Job Title: Apigee Engineers

Industry: Tech; Telecommunication

Our client, a leading technology solutions provider, is hiring an Apigee Engineer with hands-on industry development experience. Thee Apigee Engineers primary focus will be on the administration of the Apigee platform.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Functioning as a combination of Application Development Lead and API Architecture Specialist.
• Work closely with business and applications development teams to design and build technology solutions.
• Create logical designs, describe the deployment of the designs on a physical platform, translate logical designs into systems artifacts, recognize alternatives and propose choices throughout the creation of the logical and physical design including methodologies.
• Create new proof of concepts and mentor the development teams on new architectures and technologies.
• Enforcing API specification standards.
• Mentoring the API developers
• Responsible for design of API Gateway configuration
• Review of detailed designs, to ensure appropriate security, scalability, reliability, end user experience, and business reports and analytics
• Developing proof of concepts, as needed
• Code Reviews of the APIs.
• Enhancing and managing the API test tools
• Ensuring that the solution conforms to strategic architecture.
• Working with infrastructure teams to ensure correct setup of servers, load balancers, firewalls, and monitoring across the board.
• Assisting the project team with any technical issues related to API design, performance, and API Gateway
• Assistance with administration of the developer portal (Drupal and HTML5)

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of IT/software development experience
• The candidate should hold at least one current Apigee certification
• Proficient in developing APIs in APIGEE edge
• At least 3+ years’ hands on experience in Apigee,API proxy development, API management
• Prior experience with any cloud PaaS would be an advantage.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Skilled problem solver with the desire and proven ability to create innovative solutions
• Strong communicator who can explain and present concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment using Apigee, API Gateway. API design in conjunction with the API development teams.
• Software developer wanting to move into other areas, assuming general exposure to architect/platform/installation aspects.
• A good grasp of HTTP protocols and RESTful interfaces.
• Hardcore Unix and networking skills.
• Familiar with the concepts and configuration of both the cloud and micro-gateway environments. This would include practical experience or exposure to:
  • Integration to REST and SOAP interfaces.
  • Security policies, especially
  • OAuth 2.0
  • Traffic Management, including routing and load-balancing
  • Exposure to Monetization would be advantageous
  • Change management and CI/CD tools