Objectives of this Role:
Champion stability initiatives to enable high availability and resilience for our API applications, including enhancing monitoring, failover mechanisms, and overall system health.
Exhibit calm and analytical leadership when faced with major incidents on critical API systems, ensuring effective incident, problem, and change management at a global enterprise level.
Lead the proactive monitoring and management of production API environments, taking a holistic view of system health and performance.
Drive the definition, analysis, and reporting of SLIs and SLOs for all supported APIs and clients, ensuring clear performance benchmarks.
Contribute to the development and implementation of tools and systems designed to enhance API operational management and the client experience.
Measure and optimize API system performance, always pushing capabilities forward, anticipating customer needs, and innovating for continuous improvement.
Provide leadership and expert operational support for critical, large-scale distributed API ecosystems.
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:
Lead the gathering and analysis of performance metrics from API platforms and underlying infrastructure to assist in performance tuning, fault finding, and capacity planning.
Partner closely with API development teams to improve services through rigorous operational feedback loops, testing, and release procedures.
Drive the creation of sustainable API operational systems and services through automation and continuous uplifts, including developing, testing, and debugging automated tasks.
Conduct thorough post-incident reviews for API-related issues, identifying opportunities for automation and proactive monitoring to prevent recurrence.
Actively participate in and lead high-priority API production support activities, ensuring swift resolution and clear communication.
Essential Qualifications:
Extensive experience supporting Java and J2EE based applications and tooling.
Deep technical knowledge and hands-on experience supporting and troubleshooting environments including AWS, ECS, Oracle DB, and Mongo DB.
A strong understanding and practical application of SRE concepts, particularly in defining and measuring SLIs, SLOs and Error Budgets.
Demonstrated experience in building and utilizing comprehensive monitoring solutions such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Kibana to proactively alert on production API-related issues and ensure system health.
Mandatory: In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with API Gateway technologies, specifically APIGEE, and CDN solutions like Akamai.
Proven ability to proactively identify and address problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks within complex API ecosystems using software-based solutions.
Strong coding experience beyond simple scripts, preferably in Java or Python, for automation and internal tool development.Additionally Preferred Qualifications:
Prior experience or awareness of agentic or AI-based solutioning within the API Support domain, particularly for proactive issue detection and resolution.
Exposure to ITRS monitoring tools and experience in configuring ITRS gateways.
Effective in supporting Payments applications, preferably in corporate banking environments.
Strong knowledge of ITIL practices in Incident, Release, Change, and Problem management.
Bachelor’s/University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
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Job Family Group:
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Job Family:
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Time Type:
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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$79,320.00 - $110,680.00Salary shown is for full-time positions and will be prorated for part-time hires based on number of hours worked.
The hourly rate corresponding to the annual range is:
$40.67 - $56.75------------------------------------------------------
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