Vacancy caducado!
Apex Systems, America's second largest technical staffing firm, has an opportunity for a REMOTE Platform Software Engineer, API Gateway with an American multinational managed healthcare and insurance company. If interested in this, or any other opportunities with Apex Systems, please send a resume and best contact information to Sarah Zschunke, Technical Recruiter, via CANDIDATES MUST BE S. Location: 100% remote - office based out of Greenville, SC Terms: 6 month contract-to-hire Overview: This role will focus on continuing the evolution of the Optum API Security, Certification and automation platform, Stargate. Stargate provides centralized, self-service API gateway for Optum applications as well as cataloging and quality assurance tools. Immediate efforts for the project focus on expanding API Gateway space into a multi cloud environment. Top Requirements:
- Experience with API Gateways; Nginx/OpenResty/Kong or equivalent
- Proficient in at least one modern programming language (Java/Python/C/LUA)
- Familiar with container platforms and containerization (docker)
- CI/CD - Jenkins, Ansible
- OSI L4 and L7 networking knowledge, TCP/IP, TLS, IP/DNS
- Public cloud platforms - Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform
- Public cloud automation tools - Terraform
- Part of an on-call support rotation to handle support issues working with application teams to troubleshoot and fix issues.
- Design, modify, develop, write and implement software programming applications in support of the API Gateway.
- Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, and skilled in Agile development methodologies, including unit testing and continuous integration.
- Working on an Agile team, participating in Scrum ceremonies and working as a team to fix bugs and work on new features for Kong API Gateway and supporting applications.
- Customer interaction providing support for Gateway issues by reading Splunk logs and troubleshooting the network stack.
- Developing Plugins and features into Kong API Gateway product and contributing back to open source.
- Enhancing monitoring/alerting of application using Splunk and Grafana/Prometheus.
- Troubleshooting of network issues using Splunk and working with other teams such as Firewall, F5, and private cloud teams.
- Responsible for large and more complex components, while influencing overall product architecture and patterns.
- Influences the team designs and solutions. Mentors software engineers through code reviews, and hands on design sessions.
- OSI L4 and L7 networking knowledge, TCP/IP, TLS, IP/DNS
- Kong/OpenResty API Gateway
- Identifies solutions to non-standard requests and problems
- Solves complex problems and/or conducts complex analyses
- Experience with Cassandra, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
- Experience working in agile environment
- CI/CD leveraging Github/Docker/Jenkins
- System Reliability Engineering practices
- Familiar with HTTP and REST API best practices
- Administration of Cassandra
Vacancy caducado!