Lead API & AI Platform Engineer – Gateway

U.S. Bank; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Enterprise API Solution Engineer to lead the API, AI, and gateway platform across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

You will architect scalable API solutions, drive secure, policy-driven controls, and partner with Cloud, IAM, and FinOps teams to ensure governance and high performance. The role requires hands-on expertise with Apigee, AWS API Gateway, and Azure API Management, plus Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 6–8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with API gateways and cloud-native platforms.
• Security, governance, and IAM knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, engineering, and operation of scalable API, AI, and cloud-native platform solutions supporting enterprise business domains.
• Architect and manage enterprise API gateway platforms including Apigee, AWS API Gateway, and Azure API Management.
• Develop and maintain API proxies, shared flows, gateway policies, and GraphQL services to enable secure, high-performance integrations.
• Build and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and automation frameworks to support platform provisioning, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and self-service deployment capabilities that improve developer productivity and platform adoption.
• Drive security, compliance, and governance standards, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, RBAC, audit logging, and policy-as-code controls.
• Design resilient multi-cloud networking and connectivity solutions, including private endpoints, load balancing, disaster recovery, and traffic management.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration with Cloud, Security, IAM, Networking, and FinOps teams.

Skills

Platform Engineering

API Gateway Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Apigee

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

Azure AD/Entra ID

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Enterprise API Solution Engineer to lead the API, AI, and gateway platform across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

You will architect scalable API solutions, drive secure, policy-driven controls, and partner with Cloud, IAM, and FinOps teams to ensure governance and high performance. The role requires hands-on expertise with Apigee, AWS API Gateway, and Azure API Management, plus Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices.