Apigee Platform Architect

As an Apigee Solution & Platform Architect, your role will involve end-to-end ownership of API design, platform engineering, production support, infrastructure resilience, and solution architecture aligned with banking-grade standards. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead API proxy and microservice design, development, and governance to ensure scalability, security, and compliance. - Review and approve all development designs, enforcing best practices and architectural maturity. - Conduct architecture gap assessments and recommend corrective solutions. - Drive quarterly innovation by introducing emerging technologies such as GenAI accelerators for monitoring, reporting, and automation. **Platform & Infrastructure Engineering:** - Architect and manage Apigee Hybrid deployments on Anthos/GKE/NodePort clusters. - Build automation pipelines for CI/CD, patching, and upgrades. - Ensure platform resilience, failover readiness, and DR strategy. - Administer and optimize Kubernetes (pods, nodes, ingress/egress, storage policies). - Provide hands-on expertise in Linux system administration and performance tuning. **Networking & Infra:** - Design and maintain GSLB, Load Balancer, and Citrix Netscaler setups for high availability. - Validate DNS, TLS certs, firewall, and connectivity policies. - Optimize network throughput, latency management, and failover processes. **Production Support & RCA:** - Provide end-to-end ownership of production issues for Apigee runtime, APIs, and platform. - Establish a strong RCA culture, raise problem tickets, document learnings, and implement preventive fixes. - Proactively identify potential issues before they occur, leveraging monitoring, AI/ML-driven analytics, and automation. - Enhance patch responsiveness with automation-driven rollout processes. In addition to the above responsibilities, you will be involved in Trade Finance flows, integration models, and ensuring regulatory and compliance requirements are met. **Required Skills & Experience:** - 10+ years IT experience, with 5+ years in Apigee (Hybrid/Edge/X) and strong microservices expertise. - Strong in API proxy design, shared flows, governance, debugging, and optimization. - Expertise in Kubernetes (GKE, Anthos), Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu), and core networking fundamentals. - Hands-on experience with GSLB, Load Balancing, Citrix Netscaler/F5, DNS, TLS, firewalls. - Proven skills in infra automation (CI/CD, Git, Jenkins, Helm, Terraform, or equivalent). - Exposure to Generative AI/ML tools for automation, monitoring, or documentation. - Familiarity with banking/financial production environments is highly desirable. - Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills. **Preferred Certifications:** - Apigee/Google Cloud: Professional Cloud Architect / Apigee API Engineer Certification. - Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA/CKAD). - AI/ML/GenAI: Google Cloud Generative AI Professional Certificate, AWS AI/ML Specialty, or Microsoft AI Engineer Associate (preferred). - ITIL v4 or equivalent (for production & support alignment).,