Platform Engineering Senior Associate
About The Position
The Platform Engineering Senior Associate supports the API Platform Team in developing, deploying, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting Apigee Private Cloud, Apigee Hybrid, and supporting API infrastructure. The role provides technical guidance on API architecture, gateway best practices, and platform usage, while partnering with engineering, infrastructure, operations, and security teams to resolve issues and support API onboarding. The position focuses on the high availability, performance, scalability, stability, and security of the Apigee platform. It contributes to architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, platform documentation, and knowledge-sharing materials; supports platform lifecycle management, including patching and upgrades; and participates in disaster recovery planning and testing. Work is performed within an Agile delivery framework and follows ITIL-aligned change, incident, and problem management processes. DTCC describes its Information Technology group as delivering secure, reliable technology solutions for global capital markets. The role follows DTCC’s flexible hybrid model of three days onsite and two days remote, with onsite days including Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and a third day determined by the team or employee.
Requirements
- Minimum of 6 years of related experience.
- 6+ years of related experience in API platforms, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineering.
- Experience with API gateways and platforms, including Apigee Edge, Apigee Hybrid, or Apigee Private Cloud; API security such as OAuth and mTLS; routing; and API lifecycle management.
- Experience with Git and Bitbucket, and Jenkins or similar CI/CD automation tools.
- Experience with Linux (RHEL), Chef, Terraform, Ansible, and Shell or Python scripting.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure for API hosting, networking, and platform integration.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools, performance tuning, debugging distributed systems, and participating in disaster recovery exercises.
- Understanding of proxies, load balancers, TLS/mTLS, and enterprise middleware patterns.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent experience.
Responsibilities
- Assist the API Platform Team with setup, deployment, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting across Apigee Private Cloud, Apigee Hybrid, and supporting API infrastructure.
- Provide technical guidance on API architecture, gateway best practices, and platform usage patterns.
- Partner with engineering, infrastructure, operations, and security teams to resolve platform issues and support API onboarding.
- Interpret and prioritize engineering requests from development teams and translate them into platform tasks or enhancements.
- Maintain high availability, performance, scalability, stability, and security through proactive monitoring and operational best practices.
- Contribute to architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, platform documentation, and knowledge-sharing materials.
- Support lifecycle management, including patching, upgrades, component refreshes, and configuration governance.
- Deliver multiple concurrent initiatives in an Agile framework while maintaining quality and reliability standards.
- Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, validation, and documentation for Apigee and related components.
- Follow ITIL-aligned change, incident, and problem management processes.
- Demonstrate ownership, accountability, and a results-driven approach to supporting and advancing the platform.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
- Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
- Pension and retirement benefits.
- Paid time off, personal and family care, and other leaves of absence.
- Flexible/hybrid work model of three days onsite and two days remote.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
