Senior Platform Engineer – API | Kong, Layer7, Apigee | Atlanta, GA Hybrid

Senior Platform Engineer – API

📍 Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite / 2 Days Remote)
🏢 Industry: Information Technology / Platform Engineering
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time
🚫 Visa Sponsorship: Not Available
🚚 Relocation Assistance: None
💰 Compensation: $105,000 – $160,000 Base Salary
🎯 Experience Level: Mid-Senior (5–7+ Years)

Overview

A global enterprise organization is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer – API to join its Middleware and Platform Engineering team.

This role will focus on designing, implementing, automating, and supporting enterprise API management platforms within a complex, globally distributed environment. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in API gateways, API lifecycle management, security frameworks, automation, and cloud-native technologies.

As a senior member of the team, you will be expected to work independently on complex initiatives, collaborate with stakeholders across multiple regions, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to the modernization and optimization of critical API platforms.

Key Responsibilities

API Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise API management platforms.

• Support API gateway architecture and platform modernization initiatives.

• Develop scalable, secure, and reliable API solutions.

• Optimize API platform performance, availability, and resiliency.

API Lifecycle Management

• Manage API design, publishing, versioning, governance, and retirement.

• Establish and enforce API standards and best practices.

• Support API onboarding and developer enablement initiatives.

• Ensure consistency across enterprise API implementations.

Automation & DevOps

• Automate API deployment, configuration, and operational processes.

• Integrate API platforms into CI/CD pipelines.

• Develop automation scripts using Python, Shell, or Ansible.

• Support infrastructure-as-code and DevOps initiatives.

Security & Compliance

• Implement API security policies and governance controls.

• Manage authentication and authorization frameworks.

• Support secure API design and deployment practices.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards.

Monitoring & Performance Management

• Monitor API performance, availability, and usage trends.

• Analyze metrics and implement performance improvements.

• Troubleshoot complex platform and integration issues.

• Support proactive capacity planning and platform optimization.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with architects, developers, product teams, and business stakeholders.

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical knowledge sharing.

• Participate in platform strategy and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Collaborate with global teams across multiple time zones.

Required Qualifications

Experience

✔ 5+ years of experience in API platform engineering, middleware engineering, or platform operations.

✔ Experience supporting enterprise-scale API management environments.

✔ Experience working within complex, globally distributed organizations.

Must-Have Technical Skills

API Management Platforms

Strong experience with one or more of:

• Kong

• Broadcom Layer7

• Google Apigee

• Equivalent API Management Platforms

API Gateway Technologies

• API Gateway Architecture

• Traffic Management

• Rate Limiting

• API Security Policies

• API Governance

API Lifecycle Management

• API Design

• API Publishing

• API Versioning

• API Retirement

• API Governance Frameworks

Authentication & Security

• OAuth 2.0

• JWT

• OpenID Connect (OIDC)

• API Security Best Practices

Automation & DevOps

Experience with:

• Python

• Shell Scripting

• Ansible

Strong understanding of:

• CI/CD Pipelines

• DevOps Methodologies

• Deployment Automation

• Infrastructure Automation

Monitoring & Observability

Experience with:

• Prometheus

• Grafana

• API Analytics

• Performance Monitoring

• Usage Monitoring

Cloud & Containerization

Exposure to:

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Cloud-Native API Platforms

• Containerized Middleware Environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading API platform initiatives.

• Experience supporting global enterprise environments.

• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.

• Experience with platform modernization and cloud migration efforts.

• Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns and middleware ecosystems.

Screening Questions

1. Do you have professional experience with API management platforms such as Kong, Broadcom Layer7, Google Apigee, or similar technologies?

2. Do you have experience designing and supporting API gateway architectures?

3. Have you worked with API traffic management, rate limiting, and API security policies?

4. Do you have experience managing the full API lifecycle, including design, publishing, versioning, and retirement?

5. Have you implemented authentication and authorization frameworks such as OAuth 2.0, JWT, or OpenID Connect?

6. Do you have experience automating API deployments using Python, Shell, or Ansible?

7. Have you integrated API platforms into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows?

8. Do you have experience with API monitoring and analytics tools such as Prometheus or Grafana?

9. Have you worked with Docker and Kubernetes in API or middleware environments?

10. Are you authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship?

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a senior-level API platform engineer capable of operating independently.

• Possess strong expertise across API gateways, API management, and security.

• Be comfortable collaborating with global teams and stakeholders.

• Demonstrate strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.

• Have experience automating platform deployments and operational processes.

• Mentor junior engineers while remaining hands-on technically.

• Thrive in highly complex enterprise environments.

• Be flexible with occasional global collaboration outside standard business hours.

Candidate Snapshot

Requirement

Details

Experience

5–7+ Years

API Platforms

Kong, Layer7, Apigee or Equivalent

Security

OAuth 2.0, JWT, OpenID Connect

Automation

Python, Shell, Ansible

DevOps

CI/CD, Deployment Automation

Monitoring

Prometheus, Grafana

Containerization

Docker, Kubernetes

Location

Atlanta, GA

Work Arrangement

Hybrid (3 Days Onsite)

Compensation

$105K – $160K

Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

What Makes Someone Successful in This Role?

• Deep expertise in enterprise API management platforms.

• Strong understanding of API gateway architecture and security.

• Ability to automate deployments and operational processes.

• Experience working within global, cross-functional teams.

• Strong troubleshooting and platform optimization capabilities.

• Ability to balance hands-on engineering with mentoring responsibilities.

• Excellent communication skills when engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Commitment to continuous improvement, platform reliability, and operational excellence.

Solutions Architecture Senior Technical Lead - McLean, VA - Hybrid Working (Mon & Fri remote) - FT, Permanent - $180,000 - $210,000 + Benefits and Bonus

Solutions Architecture, Senior Technical Lead
McLean, VA – Hybrid (Tues, Weds, Thurs Onsite)
Full-Time, Permanent
$167,000 - $220,000 + Benefits & Bonus
Overall Earnings in the region of $250,000

Position Overview:

Are you a transformation champion? Are you passionate about technology transformations? Are you looking for a career that allows you to work with the latest and greatest technologies? Do you have demonstrable record of enabling enterprise change through architectural leadership?

The client’s Multifamily Business Unit is seeking a portfolio lead to provide leadership and oversight associated with the Solutions Architecture for Business Applications! You will lead a number of highly visible initiatives to support Multifamily Business and Engineering teams! You will help your team through transformation into Agile Architecture and will align with the Modern Delivery methodology within the business.

Our Impact:

• Introduce the overall technical vision for a particular solution by defining and establishing the solution architecture

• Define High Level Solution Intent, target state architectures and their roadmaps for portfolio products by collaborating with Business Architects, CPOs, POs, CDL and other business and IT partners to ensure alignment in visions, goals and objectives

• Define and create reference architectures and architecture/design patterns to ensure consistent implementation of the architecture roadmaps

• Own and drive development and maintenance of detailed solution intent, product architecture for a responsible ARTs (information, application, technology, security and deployment view points) that addresses functional and non-functional requirements and ensures alignment in implementation

• Plan and Develop Architectural Runway in support of new business Features and Capabilities

• Identify solution alternatives and/or new technologies to meet new business needs or tackle existing business concerns, such as customer experience, operational efficiency, performance and cost effectiveness

• Participate in pre-deployment, deployment and post-deployment activities to ensure successful deployment

• Participate in incident resolution process to help trouble-shooting, identify issue resolution and impact assessments

• Build Reference Application/Implementation for reusability and accelerated adoption of new architectural standards/patterns

• Develop/Maintain Application Design pattern catalog

Your Impact:

• Collaborate with Business Architects, Chief Product Owner, Product Owner, Agile Coach to ensure Solution and Technical Architecture creation for a given requirement/feature/initiative

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Risk & Security groups to ensure new and existing solutions are aligned with enterprise standards

• Partner with business and IT customers to drive product research, RFP/vendor interview from technical perspective and POCs activities for COTS solution in a buy decision and is responsible for communicating business cases for TAWG/ARB approvals

• Work with development leads on design brainstorming and design review to ensure alignment with architecture, patterns and standards

• Work with ART members to resolve implementation issues from business or technical requirements, design, code, testing, to technology/platform

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required; Advanced degree preferred

• 10+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture and Business Application development

• Extensive experience in Solution Architecture patterns such as micro-front ends, microservices, 12 factor applications etc.

• Prior Software development background

• 5+ years of relevant task management experience

• Hands-on and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures is required, as well as, demonstrable record of leading architects through organizational transformations

• 3+ years of relevant large-scale enterprise transformation experience as relates to architecture preferred

• Prior experience in the primary or secondary mortgage industry is desirable

• Deep knowledge of various enterprise level Platforms widely used in the industry preferred

Keys To Success in the Role:

• Highly motivated and energetic self-starter with solid organizational and time management skills; demonstrable experience operating at high standards of quality and accuracy within a fast paced changing environment

• Superb communication, leadership and relationship management skills, that enable partnering with and influencing key team members in an open, collaborative environment at all levels in an organization

• Technical and Architectural leadership with knowledge of both legacy and modern cloud based distributed systems

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to succinctly present sophisticated subject matter, specifically translating technology problems/solutions to business team members

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