Lead API Gateway engineer

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Alpharetta, GA
Mid level
eCommerce • Fintech • Payments
The Role
The Lead API Gateway Engineer is responsible for designing, building, maintaining and supporting the Apigee and IBM Datapower API Gateway infrastructures. This role includes troubleshooting issues, leading capacity planning, ensuring disaster recovery, mentoring junior engineers, and facilitating technical consultations with application teams. The engineer must possess strong skills in API management and utilize various technologies to ensure the API platform operates smoothly and securely.
Summary Generated by Built In

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

 

Essential Responsibilities

  • Design, build, maintain and support the Apigee infrastructure

  • Maintain and support the existing IBM Datapower API Gateway infrastructure

  • Lead analytical and consulting working sessions to solve technical problems faced by the application teams trying to onboard to Apigee and/or the IBM Datapower  Gateway

  • Facilitate DR (Disaster Recovery) exercises to ensure that the team are fully prepared in the event of a catastrophe

  • Lead Capacity Planning and Management activities on incoming Apigee projects requests

  • Help troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to the Apigee platform and the IBM Datapower  Gateway.

  • Lead root cause analysis session to understand what causes particular issues in Production and come up with solutions that will prevent them from happening in the future

  • Ensure documentation is created and remain updated for Apigee and/or IBM Datapower  Gateway related work

  • Build relationships with the client application teams to understand their business needs and requirements for the Apigee Platform 

  • Mentor Junior Engineers to acquire Apigee knowledge and more experiences

 

Required Qualifications

  • Strong troubleshooting skills in the API Management and Gateway space (Mainly Apigee).

  • Apigee and/or IBM Datapower API Gateway Knowledge - Infrastructure build and maintenance, Gateway setup, Oauth configuration

  • Knowledge on Policy creation/Template development and operational support within Apigee and/or IBM Datapower API Gateway.

  • Basic knowledge of Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security; Cloud platforms (Ideally GCP)

  • Infrastructure automation in GCP

  • Ability to create custom policies in Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python on the Apigee platform

  • Strong understanding of UNIX operating systems and Shell Scripting

  • Experience with CICD Tools (Jenkins, GitHub)

  • Good understanding of REST API and JSON

  • Knowledge of existing API Testing Tools (Postman, SoapUI, or any equivalent tools)

  • Experience with high availability, load balancing and failover configurations with Apigee

  • Experience in designing and implementing API platform for high traffic API solutions

  • Ability to apply security, throttling, OAuth 2.0, TLS, certificates, KeyStore, and Trust store for the Apigee platform

  • Experience with Apigee Management APIs and integration to the enterprise systems including Infrastructure & Application monitoring, Approval, Authorization and Authentication, Logging, and Continuous integration/Continuous Deploy (CI/CD), and Developer Portal, etc.

  • Have previously worked on an enterprise platform team that supports multiple Software Development product teams

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field or sufficient prior experiences

  • 4 years of experience supporting Apigee as a Platform

  • Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform

  • Basic understanding of Cassandra and Zookeeper

  • Basic understanding of Python scripts and be able to update them if needed

  •  3 Years of experience with JavaScript

 

Preferred Qualifications

 

  • DataPower experience

  • Agile Experience

 

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

Top Skills

Java
JavaScript
Node.js
Python
The Company
HQ: Atlanta, GA
24,000 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Global Payments (NYSE: GPN) is a Fortune 500 payments technology company, delivering the leading complete worldwide commerce ecosystem.

Our unique, connected infrastructure unifies every aspect of commerce, from issuer solutions to payments, and the innovative software that delivers seamless customer experiences.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we’re a worldwide team of over 24,000 people—including local experts on the ground in nearly 40 countries. Together, we support thousands of businesses across more than 100 industries. Empowering commerce for everyone.

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