APIGEE Solution & Platform Architect

As a Seasoned Apigee Solution & Platform Architect, your role will involve owning the API and platform architecture end-to-end. You will be responsible for solution design, infrastructure engineering, production stability, and innovation. Your deep expertise in Banking & Payments domain will enable you to leverage Generative AI for automation, observability, and predictive operations in a banking-grade environment. Key Responsibilities: - Lead API proxy and microservice design, development, and governance using Apigee Hybrid/Edge/X. - Review and approve solution designs, enforcing architectural best practices and security standards. - Conduct architecture gap assessments and recommend scalable, compliant solutions. - Drive quarterly innovation initiatives, introducing emerging technologies and GenAI-based accelerators. - Architect, deploy, and manage Apigee Hybrid on Anthos/GKE/NodePort clusters. - Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for deployments, patching, and platform upgrades. - Ensure platform resilience, high availability, disaster recovery (DR), and failover readiness. - Administer and optimize Kubernetes components (pods, nodes, ingress/egress, storage policies). - Design and maintain GSLB, Load Balancers, and Citrix NetScaler/F5 for high availability. - Validate DNS configurations, TLS certificates, firewall rules, and connectivity policies. - Optimize network throughput, latency management, and failover mechanisms. - Own end-to-end production support for Apigee runtime, APIs, and platform infrastructure. - Establish a strong RCA and problem management culture: - Raise problem tickets - Document root causes and preventive actions - Implement long-term corrective fixes - Proactively identify potential issues using monitoring, automation, and AI/ML-driven analytics - Improve patch responsiveness through automation-driven rollout processes - Translate business payment flows into scalable API and microservice architectures. - Ensure compliance with regulatory standards such as RBI, NPCI, and ISO 20022. - Apply Generative AI/ML in various aspects of automation, monitoring, and operations. Required Skills & Experience: - 8+ years of IT experience, with 5+ years in Apigee (Hybrid/Edge/X). - Strong expertise in API design, shared flows, governance, debugging, and performance optimization. - Deep knowledge of Banking & Payments domain. - Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (GKE, Anthos) and Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu). - Networking skills including GSLB, Load Balancers, Citrix NetScaler/F5, DNS, TLS, Firewalls. - Proven experience in infrastructure automation using CI/CD, Git, Jenkins, Helm, Terraform, or equivalent tools. - Exposure to Generative AI/ML tools. - Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills. - Experience in BFSI production environments is highly desirable. Preferred Certifications: Google Cloud / Apigee: - Professional Cloud Architect - Apigee API Engineer Kubernetes: - Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) AI / GenAI: - Google Cloud Generative AI Professional Certificate - AWS AI/ML Specialty - Microsoft AI Engineer Associate IT Service Management: - ITIL v4 or equivalent As a Seasoned Apigee Solution & Platform Architect, your role will involve owning the API and platform architecture end-to-end. You will be responsible for solution design, infrastructure engineering, production stability, and innovation. Your deep expertise in Banking & Payments domain will enable you to leverage Generative AI for automation, observability, and predictive operations in a banking-grade environment. Key Responsibilities: - Lead API proxy and microservice design, development, and governance using Apigee Hybrid/Edge/X. - Review and approve solution designs, enforcing architectural best practices and security standards. - Conduct architecture gap assessments and recommend scalable, compliant solutions. - Drive quarterly innovation initiatives, introducing emerging technologies and GenAI-based accelerators. - Architect, deploy, and manage Apigee Hybrid on Anthos/GKE/NodePort clusters. - Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for deployments, patching, and platform upgrades. - Ensure platform resilience, high availability, disaster recovery (DR), and failover readiness. - Administer and optimize Kubernetes components (pods, nodes, ingress/egress, storage policies). - Design and maintain GSLB, Load Balancers, and Citrix NetScaler/F5 for high availability. - Validate DNS configurations, TLS certificates, firewall rules, and connectivity policies. - Optimize network throughput, latency management, and failover mechanisms. - Own end-to-end production support for Apigee runtime, APIs, and platform infrastructure. - Establish a strong RCA and problem management culture: - Raise problem tickets - Document root causes and preventive actions - Implement long-term corrective fixes - Proactively identify potential issues