API Gateway / Platform Engineer

API Gateway/Platform Engineer
Location: Wilmington, DE
Duration: 6 months 

• 8-10 years of experience in platform engineering, backend development

• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot for building microservices

• Experience designing and deploying RESTful APIs

• Practical experience with OAuth2/OIDC authorization frameworks

• Hands-on experience deploying and managing APIs through API Gateway solutions (AWS API Gateway, Kong, Apigee, or similar)

• Experience running and operating workloads on Kubernetes, ideally Amazon EKS

• Solid understanding of AWS services (EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch)

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

• Solid understanding of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience with AWS

• Understanding of API security best practices (OAuth2)

• Good communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally

• Nice to have - knowledge of Akamai GTM

Regards
Mark R
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