API Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking for an experienced API Infrastructure Engineer to build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems across hardware, software, networks and cloud platforms. You will ensure reliability, availability and scalability through software engineering techniques, automation and best practices in incident response. The role includes providing L2/L3 support for the infrastructure and application stack while driving automation, site reliability and release excellence across environments. This is a hybrid role based in Bengaluru.

Our client is a leading global banking and financial services institution with a large technology organisation that supports millions of customers worldwide. They are known for combining scale and stability with a strong culture of engineering excellence, innovation and continuous improvement. The team operates across modern cloud and hybrid environments, investing heavily in automation, reliability and secure software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build, deliver and maintain high-quality infrastructure solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks and tools, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Design, implement and govern infrastructure as code and automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible and Shell scripting.
• Build and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security controls and release automation using GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins.
• Monitor infrastructure and system performance with Datadog, proactively identifying and resolving issues, vulnerabilities and outages to reduce mean time to resolution.
• Provide L2/L3 support for infrastructure and application stacks, including incident, problem and change management aligned to ITIL processes.
• Implement secure configurations and secure coding practices, ensuring compliance with enterprise security, risk, governance and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with product owners, solution architects, security, platform and QA teams to deliver integrated solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles and support documentation, and plan and execute OS patching cycles.
• Stay current with industry technology trends and contribute to technical communities to foster engineering excellence and growth.
• Support recruitment, onboarding and team growth initiatives while promoting clean, testable and maintainable code.

Requirements

• 4-8 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, including IaC, automation, design governance and troubleshooting.
• Strong programming skills in Python or Java, along with shell scripting.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECR, EKS, S3, CloudFormation and networking.
• Solid understanding of containers and hands-on experience with Docker, EKS and Helm charts.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab, Datadog, Maven, Gradle and NPM.
• Familiarity with API management and middleware technologies such as Apigee Edge, TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO EMS and MQ.
• Working knowledge of security and quality tools such as Snyk and Qualys, and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with blue-green and other deployment strategies, plus strong Linux and Windows operating system knowledge.
• Good understanding of authentication, authorization, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, with experience designing APIs and RESTful services.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams and time zones.

Skills

Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Shell script, Datadog, Python, Docker, AWS, EKS, GitLab CI/CD, Apigee Edge, TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO EMS, MQ, ECR, S3, CloudFormation, Snyk, Qualys, Jira, Confluence, Maven, Gradle, NPM, JavaScript, Java, Cucumber, JUnit, Database design and SQL, Windows, Linux, AIX, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Helm, Nexus, ServiceNow, Blue-Green deployment