Senior Azure API Technical Lead
India
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Job Description
Senior Azure API Technical Lead
Gurugram, Haryana

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/OpenShift, 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 OpenShift(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, OpenTelemetry, 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/OpenShift, 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 OpenShift(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, OpenTelemetry, 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 DevSecOps practices such as image scanning, dependency scanning, secret detection, SAST/DAST, and policy-controlled pipelines.
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