- Company Name
- Sun Life
- Job Title
- API Platform Operations Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
API Platform Operations Engineer
**Role Summary**
Responsible for operating and supporting the enterprise API platform and Event Hub components. Works with cross‑functional operations, engineering, and consulting teams to maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize API services in cloud and on‑premise environments.
**Expectations**
- Deliver reliable API and event‑hub operations with minimal downtime.
- Participate in continuous improvement, performance tuning, and defect resolution.
- Ensure adherence to CI/CD best practices and API governance standards.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to align platform features with strategic priorities.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Deploy, monitor, and support API platform components (gateways, service‑mesh, runtimes, security).
- Operate the Enterprise Event Hub, including Kafka clusters.
- Troubleshoot platform defects, debug issues, and implement effective solutions.
- Design, run, and analyze performance and load‑testing; apply optimizations.
- Maintain and improve continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
- Partner with API, business, and technology teams to demonstrate value of cloud‑based API solutions.
- Support API governance, standardization, and security across the organization.
**Required Skills**
- 3–6 years of IT experience, with 2+ years in application support/operations.
- 1–2 years of Java development.
- Proven experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Ansible).
- DevOps knowledge: containers, Docker, Kubernetes.
- REST API design expertise; familiarity with OpenAPI Spec, RAML.
- Experience with API gateway/mesh technologies and security patterns.
- Scripting ability for automation (e.g., Bash, Python).
**Nice to Have**
- AWS services (EKS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway).
- Kafka/Confluent expertise.
- API architecture frameworks, security patterns, and delivery models.
- Authentication/Authorization standards (OAuth, OpenID).
- Helm/Kustomize for Kubernetes deployments.
- Spring Boot with secure coding, load‑testing, and performance tuning.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, Kubernetes Administrator, Spring Professional) are a plus.
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