Sr. Apigee Engineer
Contract
About the Role
At Agileblox, we have a unique opportunity to work within the API and Integration Team as a Senior Apigee Engineer. In this role, you will be helping Agileblox's clients to create patterns and framework for API development teams to follow as well as provide needed governance. You will work with stakeholders, engineers, and subject matter experts to analyze, design, build and implement API proxies, integrate with back-end microservices, build developer portal artifacts and support external and internal app developers. You will work with the DevSecOps team to automate the API framework. You will own the Apigee platform and be the "go-to" person for all the Apigee needs. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment and enable the team to deliver and improve on the product quickly.
Responsibilities
1. API Architecture Responsibilities
- Actively participate in technical design discussions and help finalize the architecture decisions with Leadership team and Enterprise Architects
- Understand the business requirements, API strategy, and provide implementation solutions using existing patterns, guidelines, and framework.
- Document Architectural decisions made during API Lifecycle
- Communicate extensively with API Developers, Microservice Developers, Solution Architects and Enterprise Architects
- Reviews and ensures major implementation approach are consistent, maintainable, and flexible.
2. Leadership Responsibilities
- Develops and manages effective collaborative relationships with peers, Architects and senior resources
- Capable of API delivery end to end which includes Planning, Design, Development, Testing, and Delivery of API(s).
- Own creation and deployment of API led design strategy, API usage framework, and project team API enablement guidance as a core member of the service delivery team.
- Effectively communicates project expectations, issues, risks, and decisions to project team and business stakeholder related to API implementation.
3. Design/Development Responsibilities
- Design, develop, configure, and troubleshoot APIs and policies using Apigee; Build and support the API during the full lifecycle; Maintain documentation for the technical deliverables when applicable.
- Install, configure, test Apigee installations and upgrades; Automation of activities related to Apigee, such as but not limited to deployment of proxies and other artifacts of Apigee environment, configuration updates, log collection, health check and monitoring, etc.
- Implement Security layer of Apigee proxies; Debugging and troubleshooting of reported issues on the API proxy level; Debug and troubleshoot issues on the Apigeex, Apigee Hybrid/OPDK operational level.
- Participate in requirement analysis and feasibility discussions, providing recommendations on best practices; Participate in code reviews, release delivery, and in agile meetings such as but not limited to sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily status meetings, story pointing.
- Collaborate and work closely with other team members; Prepare and participate in presentation and demonstrations of developed solutions; Effectively communicate issues and risks in a timely manner.
What's Needed?
- 10+ years of professional software development and maintenance experience; Software development experience using Java; Experience in Agile/Scrum software development environments, build and deployment of code, and a basic to moderate understanding of networks
- Expert level understanding of REST APIs; Design and development of Rest API services using Java/Springboot; REST API Security; Familiarity with API lifecycle
- Working experience with Apigee API Gateway and Apigee OPDK (On-Premises Gateway); Apigee management APIs and troubleshooting Apigee Edge components; Experience with Apigee custom analytics, monitoring, alerts, traffic management, security, mediation, and extension policies
- Design and development of Apigee proxies and flows; Securing Apigee proxies, and knowledge of different industry standards and security models; Experience building Apigee custom policies using Java and JavaScript in the context of Apigee custom policies
- Experience in Postman, OAS (Open API Specifications), Swagger, JMeter, IDEs, Linux Operating System, RHEL, Git, Maven, BitBucket, Jira, Confluence, CI/CD processes and pipelines (Jenkins, Cloudbees, Ansible, Coverity, etc.); Experience in HTTP/S, PKI, SSL