API/ APIGEE Senior Engineer

The APIGEE Engineering team at Citi is a cross-functional Operations/Software Engineering team with involvement at all phases of our application and service release lifecycle that embraces the DevOps method of communication, collaboration and integration. Development engineers and analysts are responsible for design, implementation, and ongoing support of the production services, applications and platform components that comprise our API gateway implementation. In this role you have the opportunity to leverage your technical skills in systems management, software development and database skills to provide best-practices guidance and support for API Management technology.

Work closely with operations and software engineering teams to design and implement scalable and high performance solutions for our platform as a service and internal management tools.
Drive automation of application deployment for production and pre-release environments.
Define monitoring requirements and implement automated incident resolution solutions.
Design, implement and manage continuous integration, build management and deployment scripts and systems.
Provide troubleshooting and break-fix support for production services.
Quickly and efficiently troubleshoot simple and complex issues in order to provide outstanding support for internal service level objectives
Identify areas for process and efficiency improvement within Platform Services Operations; recommend solutions and assist in overseeing implementation. Actively facilitate continuous improvement.
Ensure all necessary operational processes and procedures are carried out with a high level of attention to detail, expediency and on-time delivery.
Define and document standard run books and operating procedures. Create and maintain system information and architecture diagrams.
Monitor various systems capacity and health indicators and trends; provide analytics & forecasts for added or reduced capacity as required.
Knowledge on Micro services and Open APIs, Restful Web Services or APIs.
Good Knowledge of Consumer and Private Banking Domain, SDLC, APIs.
Experience working in spring boot micro-services.
Design and develop API specifications using Swaggers and Open API Specification
Knowledge on configuring API Security (Oauth, JWT, 2 way SSL etc.) on Apigee Edge. Good Knowledge of IBM APIC , API management platform.
Able to understand client requirement and communicate technical solutions to customers, SMEs and architects
Knowledge of basic authentication and OAuth configurations is needed.
Experience working with DevOps pipelines using Jenkins and RLM
Experience with IBM DataPower firmware deployment, policy configuration, and application integration
Experience with SOAP and/or REST-based Web services
Experience with multiple DataPower services, including XML firewall, Web Service Proxy, and MPGW
Experience creating and deploying XSLT, XSDs, and WSDLs
Experience with DataPower AAA (authentication, authorization, and auditing)
Writing Open API spec and knowledge of smart docs and on boarding APIs to developer portal
Understanding of automation practices throughout the development, build, and deployment phases of the application life-cycle
Demonstrated ability to support and administer high volume pre-release and production environments for internal and external facing applications.
Experience with one or more Unix shell scripting languages (Bash, C-Shell, ...)
Experience with relational databases in the area of schema design, stored procedures, and query optimization
Experience with build management and continuous integration tools (Bamboo, Jenkins)
Understanding of revision control and continuous integration best practices.
Experience using an operational ticketing system to record changes and work history details such as JIRA or Service Now.
Experience with cloud services (Amazon EC2/S3, OpenStack) elastic capacity administration and cloud deployment and administration tools a plus

Qualifications:

• 8+ years in a product development/product management environment
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented
• Experience delivering with an agile methodology
• Experience in affecting large culture change
• Experience leading infrastructure programs
• Skilled at working with third party service providers
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience