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 requirements

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

Preferred skills

Technology->Cloud Integration and API Management->Cloud Integration and API Management - ALL

Education

MCA,MTech,Bachelor of Engineering,BCA,BTech