Description:
Reporting to the Director, API Platform Operations, API Platform Operation Engineer is responsible for supporting the API platform and Enterprise Event Hub components. The role works very closely with the team of Operations Engineers (across domains and platforms), API Platform Engineering and API Platform Consulting Teams.
What will you do?
- Participate in the operations (support, deployment and rollout of components) in API Platforms both in the cloud and on premise. Experience in operations and implementing API framework is a must.
- Participate in the construction, maintenance and continuous improvement of core infrastructure that underlies API operational support including a gateway/service-mesh, runtimes, security.
- Participate in the operations and support of the Enterprise Event Hub with Kafka.
- Participate in the operations and support of the API and micro-services
- Identifying defects in the platform modules, debugging issues being faced and provide effective solutions.
- Participate in designing, running and interpreting performance and load-testing processes and implementing required optimizations.
- Ensure projects are following best practices around continuous integration and delivery
- Partner with business, and API teams to design, develop and demonstrate the value of implementing API Platform components using cloud-based solutions.
- Work closely with the business and technology partners to ensure effective implementation of new technologies that support API Governance and standardization across Sun life.
What do you need to succeed?
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related area.
- 3-6 years experiences in related IT areas.
- Minimum of 1-2 years experiences in Application support and Operations.
- Minimum of 1-2 years development experience with Java
- Experience in implementing continuous integration and delivery solutions.
- Experience working in AWS cloud, specially in AWS services like EKS, EC2
- Good understanding of DevOps, Containers/Docker, Kubernetes
- Minimum of 1-3 years experience working with Kafka/ Confluent technologies. ( Kafka Connect using Schema Registry, Kafka Broker, Zookeeper, KSQL, KStream, Kafka Control Center, Kafka Rest Proxy )
- Knowledge of REST API design standards, good working knowledge of API design specifications like Open API Spec, RAML.