Senior Azure API Technical Lead

Job Summary

To put it into high level summary, we need someone who have AWS infrastructure setup experience/APIGEE gateway experience(40%), Experience with Kubernetes/Docker/helm/Openshift(40%), Java/Maven/Springboot(20%). Removed references of RHEL. Below is detailed JD. Job Profile: Platform / Software Engineer * We are looking for a technically strong engineer with hands-on experience in CI/CD, Kubernetes/OCP, and AWS cloud infrastructure. * The role supports the design, build, deployment, and operational stability of a busy API gateway platform(Example-APIGEE) and its supporting ecosystem in a highly regulated environment. * The engineer will work across AWS cloud infra, GitLab CI, Kubernetes/Open Shift, deployment automation, and API traffic analysis. Strong troubleshooting skills are essential, particularly across complex distributed systems and multi-team API journeys. Required Technical Skills * Hands-on experience maintaining and setup of API gateways on AWS cloud infrastructure, Preferred APIGEE experience * Understanding of build, test, deploy, promotion, rollback, and release automation patterns. * Practical experience with Kubernetes, ideally Open Shift(OCP). * Ability to build, inspect, troubleshoot, and optimise container images. * Understanding of registries, image tagging, runtime behaviour, and container logs. * Experience with Helm charts, Ansible playbooks, or similar deployment automation. * Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code / Configuration as Code principles. * Ability to manage deployment configuration through source control. * Strong ability to trace API traffic across multiple components. * Experience troubleshooting across API gateways, ingress/routes, middleware, authentication, backend services, downstream systems, and network components. * Good understanding of HTTP, REST, headers, status codes, request/response flows, latency, timeouts, and error patterns. * Deep troubleshooting capability across pipeline, platform, application, Linux, network, and API layers. * Experience using logs, metrics, events, traces, and deployment evidence to support investigations. * Familiarity with tools such as **Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, or similar. * Experience working in a highly regulated environment. * Understanding of change control, release governance, audit evidence, production controls, and operational resilience. * Ability to produce clear documentation, runbooks, investigation notes, and deployment evidence. * Familiarity with Java, Maven, and Artifactory. Desirable Technical Skills(Preferred but not mandatory) * Experience with API gateway / API management platforms. * Understanding of routing, policies, authentication, throttling, certificates, maTLS, and traffic inspection. * Experience troubleshooting TLS, maTLS, certificates, trust stores, keystores, and certificate chains. * Awareness of secrets management and secure configuration handling. * Working knowledge of DNS, proxies, firewalls, load balancers, ingress controllers, routing, ports, and connectivity testing. * Experience supporting multiple environments, including dev, test, staging, pre-production, and production. * Understanding of deployment promotion, rollback, release evidence, and enviro

Key Responsibilities

• We are looking for a technically strong engineer with hands-on experience in CI/CD, Kubernetes/OCP, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• The role supports the design, build, deployment, and operational stability of a busy API gateway platform(Example-APIGEE) and its supporting ecosystem in a highly regulated environment.
• The engineer will work across AWS cloud infra, GitLab CI, Kubernetes/Open Shift, deployment automation, and API traffic analysis. Strong troubleshooting skills are essential, particularly across complex distributed systems and multi-team API journeys.

Skill Requirements

• Required Technical Skills
• Hands-on experience maintaining and setup of API gateways on AWS cloud infrastructure, Preferred APIGEE experience
• Understanding of build, test, deploy, promotion, rollback, and release automation patterns.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes, ideally Open Shift(OCP).
• Ability to build, inspect, troubleshoot, and optimise container images.
• Understanding of registries, image tagging, runtime behaviour, and container logs.
• Experience with Helm charts, Ansible playbooks, or similar deployment automation.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code / Configuration as Code principles.
• Ability to manage deployment configuration through source control.
• Strong ability to trace API traffic across multiple components.
• Experience troubleshooting across API gateways, ingress/routes, middleware, authentication, backend services, downstream systems, and network components.
• Good understanding of HTTP, REST, headers, status codes, request/response flows, latency, timeouts, and error patterns.
• Deep troubleshooting capability across pipeline, platform, application, Linux, network, and API layers.
• Experience using logs, metrics, events, traces, and deployment evidence to support investigations.
• Familiarity with tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, or similar.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Understanding of change control, release governance, audit evidence, production controls, and operational resilience.
• Ability to produce clear documentation, runbooks, investigation notes, and deployment evidence.
• Familiarity with Java, Maven, and Artifactory.

Other Requirements

• Desirable Technical Skills(Preferred but not mandatory)
• Experience with API gateway / API management platforms.
• Understanding of routing, policies, authentication, throttling, certificates, maTLS, and traffic inspection.
• Experience troubleshooting TLS, maTLS, certificates, trust stores, keystores, and certificate chains.
• Awareness of secrets management and secure configuration handling.
• Working knowledge of DNS, proxies, firewalls, load balancers, ingress controllers, routing, ports, and connectivity testing.
• Experience supporting multiple environments, including dev, test, staging, pre-production, and production.
• Understanding of deployment promotion, rollback, release evidence, and environment drift.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or similar automation tooling.
• Familiarity with Dev Sec Ops practices such as image scanning, dependency scanning, secret detection, SAST/DAST, and policy-controlled pipelines.