AVP, Lead API Gateway Developer, Consumer Banking Group Technology, Technology & Operations

Business Function Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels. Responsibilities: • Setting up Kong Gateway environments which included API transformations, logging, and request/response modifications etc., • API Development, Code Reviews and Automation using Lua, Python etc., • Design and Architecture of underlying applications and to work with central Architecture team for relevant reviews and approvals. • Exposure to the CICD implementations, Site Reliability Engineering agenda forward at an Enterprise Level to improve availability, reliability, and performance of services. • Work with application teams for Observability, automating monitoring and auto-remediation of known issues. • Capable of creating new Projects, Services for load balancing, Add Route configurations, troubleshooting PODs using OCP logs, Create Helm templates using Containerized platforms such as OpenShift (OCP). • Developing, evangelizing, and promoting best practices for automating operating systems at scale • Capable of working with multiple teams and tribes across the bank to resolve the dependencies and project releases. • Participate and perform various performance test executions like Load test, Soak test, Spike test and Chaos testing. • Implementation of BAU enhancements and support for mainstream and dependant applications and Production deployments. • Leveraging critical thinking and adaptability to lead teams through complex issues. • Sharing in the collective team vision and successfully promoting the why and how to all teams • Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle. Write well designed, testable, efficient code. • Development of integration/ automation components for DevOps productivity tools and environments • Design and develop solutions for data analytics and reporting. • Support design and development of process automation for DevOps activities • Support documentation of standard processes and best practices • Hands-on coding, unit testing and automated functional testing, Further the culture of product innovation and excellence, characterized as highly collaborative, execution-focused, customer-centric and high velocity. • Work and drive vendors to provide relevant solutions and timely report of issues. Requirements: • Hands-on experience in Kong gateway, Spring boot microservices, Python is mandatory. • Knowledge of DevOps tooling like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform is a must. • Working experience in build and deploy applications using OpenShift (OCP) and VPC are preferred. • Experience in container-based technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift. • Knowledge in SRE tools like AppDynamics, Graphana, Kibana is preferred. • Must have good knowledge in Kong enterprise features and plugins and capable of customizing the plug-ins for the banks use. • Experience with developing test cases and ensuring appropriate test coverage in unit or automated testing. • Knowledge in Databases like Cassandra and Postgress SQL and Programming languages like Java and Java script would be an advantage. • Must have good knowledge in Project life cycle methodologies and Agile Practices. • Capable of writing Unit tests and custom integration test suits for API solutions. • Experience with Proxies and Load Balancers like HAProxy and Nginix etc., • Real-time experience in building CI/CD pipelines and release strategies • Experienced in query Kibana Logs and capable of building customized dashboards out of Kibana logs for Analytics purpose. • Exposure of administering and implementing the production setups for business-critical & high-volume CAT 1 applications • Understanding of web technologies, including web services, web application servers and RESTful APIs • Good understanding of web technologies like HTML, Ajax, JavaScript, CSS, Caching concepts etc. • Experience with UNIX or scripting languages: Perl, PHP, Shell Scripting, JSP, ASP etc. • Knowledge in Content Delivery Network (CDN), network concepts like OpenSSL, SSH, SFTP, KERBEROS, PGP, etc. Apply Now We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and the professional advantages of a dynamic environment that supports your development and recognises your achievements