API & Integration Technical lead / Architect

Job Role: API & Integration Technical lead / Architect

Exp: 8 Years.

Location: Bangalore|Chennai|Coimbatore|Kolkata|Hyderabad|Bhubaneswar|Pune|Nagpur|Kochi

Must have skills

• 8 years of application design and development experience in a cloud environment
• 8 years experience of working on Apigee API Gateway for both Apigee Blueprint/Foundation set up, Apigee installation (OPDK/SaaS/Hybrid) and Proxy Development
• years of coding REST services and API such as: Java, JSON, Python.
• Hands on experience in Apigee API Management, SOAPXML, JSON, NGINX and Cloud technologies like Google Cloud platform or any similar cloud service.
• Experience in Google Cloud Platforms Apigee platform and API development experience through the entire Software Development Lifecycle Process.
• Hands on experience in user interface and web services development.
• Implementation and delivery experience in Google Cloud Platform Apigee EDGE solution.
• Experience in managing Apigee traffic for cutting over from another API Gateway
• Hands on experience in Apigee Configurations, Management and APIGEE testing.
• Experience with CI/CD Tools (Jenkins, GitHub) for Apigee proxies deployment automation.
• Ability to apply security, throttling, OAuth 2.0, TLS, certificates, KeyStore, and Trust store for the Apigee platform
• Hands-on development expertise with the Google Apigee Edge platform including but not limited to installation and configuration
• Experience of analysing API traffic, API performance, API issue diagnosis
• Experience in setting up KPIs, alerts and notification to avoid potential issues due to bots, security, latency and data errors and resolve incidents quickly

Good to have skills

• Knowledge of IBM Software AG /WebMethods, IBM Data Power
• Knowledge of APIGEE Microservice Gateways and Istio Service Mesh
• Knowledge of how to set up Analytics and Reporting on Apigee
• Knowledge of integrating Apigee with incident management, monitoring and logging tools like Splunk, Remedy, ELK, etc.

Key responsibilities

• Work on APIGEE Implementation projects in the capacity to lead on design Apigee architecture along with customer architects and network/cloud engineers
• Creation of proxy flows, templates, security set up and automation of processes like migration of proxies, importing OAS docs, etc.
• Developer portal set up and customisation on need basis
• Configuration of Analytics and Monitoring capabilities of Apigee
• Providing conceptual solutions for APIGEE opportunities
• Participate in discussion on APIGEE options for connectivity, security and foundation
• Set up and work with CI/CD pipelines for Apigee proxy deployments and testing
• Pre-Sales support for detailing of APIGEE related opportunities
• Interact with Client to understand the existing system and expectation and propose the recommendations.
• Creates, consult and reviews Architectural Decisions, architecture solution, performs re-engineering of Architectures to create solution blueprint and meet project requirement.
• Prepare training material if required; to ensure a smooth transition in the new system process for the users
• Leads technical discussions with customer SME and stakeholders to provide technical differentiation in the relationship.
• Evaluates and Reviews Design Frameworks and Methodologies and approves design to achieve functional and non-functional requirements and conformance to the architecture
• Ensure alignment with overall architecture view, creates develops reference codes, provides consultation to team members on complex coding and technical product issues to ensure effective solution development
• Set up Monitoring KPIs and Alerting notifications for APIs based on API traffic, latency, security, errors, etc
• Resolve critical issues coming at live sites, identify and fix critical architectural framework issues related to the product to meet production support requirements.