API Platform & DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities :

Design, deploy, and administer IBM DataPower API Gateway and Event Gateway platforms in production environments.

Configure and manage API security policies, authentication, authorization, SSL/TLS certificates, and traffic management.

Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitLab for application and infrastructure deployments.

Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible.

Manage and support AWS cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, and security services.

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards and DevOps best practices across environments.

Monitor API gateway performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability and reliability.

Configure API publishing, routing, transformation, rate limiting, and monitoring capabilities.

Collaborate with development teams to enable secure API deployment and lifecycle management.

Integrate API platforms with enterprise authentication systems, monitoring tools, and logging solutions.

Perform platform upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and performance tuning activities.

Automate operational tasks, deployments, and environment provisioning to improve efficiency.

Ensure compliance with security, governance, and organizational standards.

Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement preventive measures.

Support containerized and cloud-native workloads deployed on AWS platforms.

Create and maintain technical documentation, SOPs, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.

Participate in change management, release management, and production support activities.

Work closely with infrastructure, security, and application teams to deliver scalable and resilient API solutions.

Monitor system health, application logs, and deployment metrics to ensure SLA adherence.

Provide L2/L3 support and participate in on-call support for critical business applications and API services.

Technical and Professional Requirements:

IBM DataPower, Event Gateways, GitLab Pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, AWS