API Platform Engineer

Looking for candidates who have experience specifically with Layer 7 and/or NGINX.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the design and architecture of high-quality, complex systems and software/storage environments

• Prepares, reviews, and analyzes software/storage specifications for products and systems

• Contributes to the development, review, analysis and implementation of test strategies for complex software products and systems/for storage products and systems

• Contributes to the development, test and integration of code for new or existing software of significant complexity involving multiple teams

• Provides the review, analysis and closed loop corrective action for issues contributing to software/storage defects and business process problems

• Designs and implements software lifecycle and quality assurance methods for projects and products

• Presents accurate project status to senior leadership, at both a summary and detailed level

Essential Requirements:

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in working with application servers, middleware technologies and API gateway technologies such as CA Layer7 API Gateway, APIGEE and Nginx.

• Experience in Layer7 API Gateway development, policy manager and Layer-7 Portal.

• Solid experience with Linux operating systems, including advanced shell command line for performance and network troubleshooting and scripting languages such as Perl, Python, Shell.

• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP Networks, HTTP Protocol, Application Load Balancing, Reverse and Forward Proxy, SSL Encryption and Certificate management.

• Understanding of multi-tiered application architecture, webservices and databases.

• Proven experience in troubleshooting enterprise applications, including interface with operations and IT teams throughout the organization as needed.

• Platform design, implementation and operations for mission critical enterprise applications.

• Intermediate knowledge on Cloud and VMWare infrastructure

• Intermediate knowledge on Database technologies and SQL query.

• Experience with ITSM/ITIL is preferred, including incident management and change management and tools such as ServiceNow, Remedy.

• Working experience with monitoring and reporting tools like Splunk, Nagios, Zabbix and/or any other monitoring tools/processes will be advantageous

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or related field required

• Agile experience will be advantageous

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Patience, compassion, strong customer and problem-solving skills

• Detail oriented with the ability to learn quickly and efficiently

• A strong desire to learn and share information with others to make their jobs easier

• Foster open collaboration and constructive dialogue with everyone around you

• Continuously innovate new solutions, influencing and responding to change

Desirable Requirements:

• Contributes to the design and architecture of high-quality, complex systems and software/storage environments

• Prepares, reviews and analyzes software/storage specifications for products and systems

• Contributes to the development, review, analysis and implementation of test strategies for complex software products and systems/for storage products and systems

• Contributes to the development, test and integration of code for new or existing software of significant complexity involving multiple teams

• Provides the review, analysis and closed loop corrective action for issues contributing to software/storage defects and business process problems

• Designs and implements software lifecycle and quality assurance methods for projects and products

• Presents accurate project status to senior leadership, at both a summary and detailed