Senior Systems Engineer-Apigee

Auto Zone is looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer as a Senior Engineer for Apigee, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining solutions for our organization. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop scalable and secure Apigee architectures, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance.

The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Apigee technologies and possess excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

* Design, develop, configure, and troubleshoot APIs and policies using Apigee X.

* Defining overall API architecture/ implementations, integration and deployment of API management platforms and API security and Access control (SAML, Web SSO, SSL/TLS etc)

* Knowledge of health checks & Monitoring for Apigee components and API using Various tool, Configuration management systems.

* Apigee Gateway Knowledge and Cloud architecture and security.

* Experience with High availability, load balancing and failover, DR configuration with Apigee.

* Support & Upgrade Apigee Production/Non-Prod Environments.

* Implementing API Best Practices and Performance Tuning.

* Managing installation, configuration, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and quick resolution of problems of the most complex nature.

* Deployment of proxies and other artifacts of Apigee environment, configuration updates, log collection, health check and monitoring, etc.

* Build and support the API during the full lifecycle.

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.

* 6 to 8 years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting Apigee solutions in a large-scale production environment.

* Unix Shell Scripting and Ansible Experience.

CI/CD experience (set up of CI/CD desirable).

* Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and container technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

* Maintain documentation for the technical deliverables when applicable.

* Prepare and participate in presentation and demonstrations of developed solutions.

* Collaborate and work closely with other team members.

* Participate in agile meetings such as but not limited to: sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily status meetings, story pointing.

* Provide L2/L3 support for Apigee platform to ensure platform is highly available.

* Working on production support Incidents/Service request/Changes and ensure SLAs are met.

* Help consumers and IT stakeholders by providing solutions for the issues reported in the platform.

* Lead root cause analysis session to understand Production issues and produce solutions that will prevent them from happening in the future.

* Experience in monitor tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana, APPD.

* Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

* Certifications such as Certified in Apigee, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, GCP or related certifications are a plus.