Position Title: Solution Architect
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Estimated Duration: 6 months
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Chassis & Service Engineering – platform organization for API services for the Bank, involved in the development and maintenance of tools and platforms that streamline the software development lifecycle, particularly for cloud-native applications.
Project: – Cloud Acceleration Program – migration from Apigee Edge to Apigee X. – The candidate will collaborate closely with architects and Apigee/network/cloud engineers building the API gateway platform of the future at the bank, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in facilitating the transition from Apigee Edge to Apigee X. Has extensive experiences in implementing Apigee based API solutions, setting up CI/CD pipelines and establish API development processes including infrastructure-as-Code. The candidate will collaborate closely with architects and Apigee/network/cloud engineers building the API gateway platform of the future at the bank, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.
Typical Day in Role:
- Infrastructure readiness of the Google API Management Tool (APIGEE X)
- Migrate the Apigee Edge workloads to ApigeeX
- Collaborate closely with architects and Apigee/network/cloud engineers building the API gateway platform of the future at the bank
- Performs technical analysis, design, build and deployment of highly complex / scalable API Platform.
- Establish and manage CI/CD pipelines for Apigee Proxy deployments and testing.
- Develop, support, and troubleshoot proxy flows, templates, and security features.
- Facilitate automations in migrating Apigee Edge deployments to Apigee X.
- Collaborate with vendors, internal and external teams to accomplish project success.
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
- 10+ years of relevant IT experience, with 5+ years as a Solutions Architect / Principal Engineer – with demonstrated experience creating logical architecture diagrams, with architecture review board sessions, and working with senior stakeholders
- 3+ years’ experience with hands-on API development, stack migration and back-end service side development
- Experience with Security, Access Controls (IAM/OAuth/SAML etc.), Network level controls (SSL, TLS etc.), Error handling
- Experience building and deploying CI/CD pipelines for cloud workloads using tools like Jenkins, GitHub actions and infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
- 3+ years’ experience with cloud architecture, components, and implementation use cases
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- Experience with development in Apigee based API solutions, ApigeeX
- Experience with Enterprise Integration/Middleware Solutions
- Experience with GCP
Soft Skills Required:
- Good communication skills
- Team player
- Presentation skills
Education:
- Bachelors in technical field
- Any API products certifications an asset
- Cloud certifications an asset
Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate has strong API back-end development, API stack migration, Cloud experience, GCP a bonus. Has extensive experiences in developing Apigee based API solutions, setting up CI/CD pipelines and IaC, and establish API development processes. Need someone who is a strategic thinker, can make decisions and lead on those with confidence.
The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$90.00 and CA$100.00
Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.
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