APIGEE Lead - API Architecture

Responsibilities : - Design, build, maintain, and support the Apigee infrastructure. - Define overall API architecture, API implementations, integration, and deployment of API management platforms such as APIGEE. - Ability to understand pilot implementation plan, Reference Architecture, develop governance to adhere to those architecture guidelines, CI / CD methodology and processes, API Versioning strategy, and API Monetization strategy. - Best practices and guidelines covering Security, Audit, Error handling, logging frameworks, API Design guidelines, etc. - Design and implement API Gateway solutions. - Lead analytical and consulting working sessions to solve technical problems faced by the application teams trying to onboard to Apigee API Gateway - Facilitate DR (Disaster Recovery) exercises to ensure that the team is fully prepared in the event of a catastrophe. - Help troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to the Apigee platform. - Lead root cause analysis session to understand what causes particular issues in Production and come up with solutions that will prevent them from happening in the future. - Ensure documentation is created and remains updated for Apigee-related work. - Mentor Junior Engineers to acquire Apigee knowledge and more experiences. - Authentication Authorization mechanisms - Experience with API security standards and implementation (OAuth, Open ID) - Participate in business requirements and functional requirements review meetings which involve devising, strategizing, and explaining technical specifications and the way to achieve software solutions. - Creation of Technical Specifications, Design Documents, and data mapping keeping in mind the best practices and principles of Integration design and architecture. - Establish best practices and implementation guidelines for APIGEE implementation. - Reducing build costs by designing and implementing reusable assets. - Preparation of Implementation plan and execution. - API design in conjunction with the API development teams. - Complete knowledge of Apigee Gateway and should be able to analyze and propose solutions for any operations issues. - Enforcing API specification standards. - Responsible for the design of API Gateway configuration. - Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best practices especially Swagger and OpenAPI 3.0 REST, SOAP, Kafka/MQ, JSON, Microservices, etc. - Develop and deploy API policies using the Apigee X Platform. - Monitoring/logging tools : Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Log Analytics. - Significant experience in DevOps and the CI/CD process, especially deploying API Proxies/Products in Apigee through CI/CD. - 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. - 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 tech issues related to API design, performance, and gateway Requirements : - Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science. - Good communication skills in person and over the phone. - Strong knowledge of Apigee infrastructure and development. - Solid understanding of API design and API management. - Experience with an API Gateway solution. - Must have good experience in APIGEE and GCP Infrastructure - Experienced in working with infrastructure teams to set up servers, load balancers, firewalls, etc. - Understanding of OWASP, SAML, OAuth, SSL, and various other security tools, technologies, and guidelines. - Expert in developing and consuming Restful, SOAP services. - Good understanding of APIGEE Architecture. (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: pune, IN

Posted Date: 11/23/2024