API Developer

Job Responsibilities 

• Coordinate with Architecture and Network Engineering to understand and develop platform architecture
• Develop a Dockerized api-proxy solution built on the Kong API Gateway written with and using Lua best practices
• Work with CloudFormation templates to extend and refine our AWS infrastructure. Including, but not limited to:
• RDS, Elasticache, etc
• Utilizing auto-scaling with Docker containers running on EC2
• Develop and manage the entire AWS stack and all its components
• Understand and define performance level needs for the platform
• Design, implement, execute, and report performance testing results
• Define Cloudwatch logs, alarms, troubleshoot them and fix issues in a defined release cadence
• Integrating with third party products integrating with Cloudwatch
• Manage IAM permissions and work with DevOps to maintain “least privilege” 
• Coordinate with other teams to provide API contract guidance and implement routing for their microservices
• Develop and refine Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to deploy code, run acceptance tests, and monitor environment health
• Effectively collaborate with cross geo team (Dev team working out of India-Pune and USA-Salt lake City) and willing to stretch at times
• Effectively collaborate with TS/TAM/NOC to address queries and concerns

Key skills you will require: 

Primary Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business Information Systems or related field or equivalent work experience is required.
• Experience with DevOps tools and processes
• Jenkins, Git, Docker
• Scripting: Unix, Shell, Groovy, Python
• Sonarqube
• Experience in one or more of the following software languages: Kong-LUA (Scripting Languages Python, Scala)
• Experience designing, developing, deploying and supporting RESTful APIs.
• Experience with developing services, clients and multi-threaded software.
• Experience developing with SQL Server or equivalent
• Working knowledge of unit testing and test automation
• Working knowledge of user stories and use cases
• Working knowledge of object-oriented software design and design patterns.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

 Secondary Skills:

• Experience with AWS technologies (VPN, Route53-DNS, VPC,ALB, Multi-region,Multi-Area)
• AWS Developer / AWS Arch Certifications
• nginx experience could be good to (or any sort of reverse proxy type stuff)
• Microservice architecture knowhow
• Familiarity with Swagger
• Familiarity with authentication methods
• Experience(s) as a technical or team lead or equivalent experience
• Experience with telecommunications/telephony
• Experience with call centers
• Experience working in a CI/CD Environment
• Experience with Jira
• Experience with automation/testing tools
• Experience with/knowledge of agile development processes