This role will focus on continuing the evolution of the Optum API Security, Certification and automation platform, Stargate. Stargate provides centralized, self-service API gateway for Optum applications as well as cataloging and quality assurance tools. Immediate efforts for the project focus on tracking and managing APIs provide by Optum’s applications hosted on public cloud providers.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, modify, develop, write and implement software programming applications in support of the API Gateway.
• Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, and skilled in Agile development methodologies, including unit testing and continuous integration.
• Working on an Agile team, participating in Scrum ceremonies and working as a team to fix bugs and work on new features for Kong API Gateway and supporting applications.
• Customer interaction providing support for Gateway issues by reading Splunk logs and troubleshooting the network stack.
• Developing Plugins and features into Kong API Gateway product and contributing back to open source.
• Enhancing monitoring/alerting of application using Splunk and Grafana/Prometheus.
• Troubleshooting of network issues using Splunk and working with other teams such as Firewall, F5, and private cloud teams.
• Part of an on-call support rotation to handle support issues working with application teams to troubleshoot and fix issues.
• Responsible for large and more complex components, while influencing overall product architecture and patterns.
• Influences the team designs and solutions. Mentors software engineers through code reviews, and hands on design sessions

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in Software Engineering
• Experience in platform, software and development engineering
• Experience in full software lifecycle activities
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience operationalizing larger products
• Experience with Kong API Gateway, LUA programming and Full Stack – UI/REST
• Experience with Java programming and Java architect
• Experience in REST/SOAP, Jenkins and Docker
• Experience in OSI L4 and L7 networking knowledge, TCP/IP, TLS, IP/DNS
• Experience in Kong/OpenResty API Gateway
• Experience in Direct API Gateway knowledge including Nginx, OpenRest/Kong

Preferred Qualifications:

• Java/Python/LUA development
• Identifies solutions to non-standard requests and problems
• Solves complex problems and/or conducts complex analyses
• Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks
• Experience with Cassandra, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience working in agile environment
• CI/CD leveraging Github/Docker/Jenkins
• System Reliability Engineering practices
• Familiar with HTTP and REST API best practices
• Administration of Cassandra

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