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Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.\nJob Description\nAbout the Team\nThe Platform Engineering team designs, builds, and operates secure, compliant, and scalable API, AI, and cloud-native platforms that power digital services across the organization. We function as a platform engineering organization, enabling domain teams to accelerate delivery through self-service infrastructure, strong governance, and automation-first design.\nWe partner closely with Cloud Engineering, IAM, Information Security, Networking, and FinOps teams to ensure our platforms meet regulatory expectations while delivering a high-quality developer experience. Our mission is to enable secure, standardized, and high-performance platform ecosystems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments while enforcing enterprise standards through automation and policy-driven controls.\nIn this role you will lead Enterprise API Solution Engineering in building the API, AI, and Agentic Gateway Platform.\nJob Responsibilities\nLead the design, engineering, and operation of scalable API, AI, and cloud-native platform solutions supporting enterprise business domains.\nArchitect and manage enterprise API gateway platforms including Apigee, AWS API Gateway, and Azure API Management.\nDevelop and maintain API proxies, shared flows, gateway policies, and GraphQL services to enable secure, high-performance integrations.\nBuild and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and automation frameworks to support platform provisioning, governance, and lifecycle management.\nImplement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and self-service deployment capabilities that improve developer productivity and platform adoption.\nDrive security, compliance, and governance standards, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, RBAC, audit logging, and policy-as-code controls.\nDesign resilient multi-cloud networking and connectivity solutions, including private endpoints, load balancing, disaster recovery, and traffic management.\nProvide technical leadership, mentorship, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration with Cloud, Security, IAM, Networking, and FinOps teams.\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience \nSix to eight years of relevant experience \nPreferred Skills & Experience\nExpertise in Platform Engineering, API Gateway Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure within large-scale enterprise environments.\nStrong hands-on experience with Apigee (Hybrid/OPDK), including Platform Architecture, API Proxy Development, Deployment, Operations, and Performance Optimization.\nAdvanced knowledge of API Security, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, API Keys, Mutual TLS (mTLS), Secure Token Flows, and Threat Protection Controls.\nExperience with Kubernetes platforms (AKS, EKS, GKE), Containerized Applications, and Cloud-Native Architectures.\nProficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools including Terraform, Helm, and Ansible.\nStrong understanding of Networking and Traffic Management, including DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door, ALB, NLB, and F5 BIG-IP.\nExperience implementing CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, and Observability Platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and Datadog.\nHands-on experience with Identity & Access Management (IAM), Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, and Enterprise Authentication & Authorization frameworks.\nLocation expectations \nThis role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.\nIf there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.\nBenefits:\nOur approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:\nHealthcare (medical, dental, vision)\n\nBasic term and optional term life insurance\n\nShort-term and long-term disability\n\nPregnancy disability and parental leave\n\n401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan\n\nPaid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)\n\nUp to 11 paid holiday opportunities\n\nAdoption assistance\n\nSick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law\n\nReview our full benefits available by employment status here.\nU.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.\nE-Verify\nU.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.\nThe salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $126,820.00 - $149,200.00U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). 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