Platform Engineer III: Remote API Gateway at Scale

AVAILITY; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

9 paid holidays

Education reimbursement

Paid Parental Leave

401k match

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Availity, a leading healthcare technology company, is seeking a Platform Engineer III to manage the API gateway platform across enterprise-scale integrations. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to evolve our core integration platform, ensuring secure, reliable service delivery for health plans and providers.

The role requires hands-on IAM/VPC/EKS expertise, IaC using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and strong mentoring skills, with a focus on reliability, observability, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4-6 years of relevant technical and business experience in IT systems delivery, operations, and support (preferably in healthcare or high-transaction environments).
• 3+ years of experience in technical engineering efforts involving implementation and management of IT systems.
• Hands-on experience with API Gateway management at scale, HTTP integration and API authentication frameworks, SSL certificates, Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) and AWS services (VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, Istio).
• Observability and monitoring tools (Splunk, New Relic).
• Experience bridging infrastructure and development teams, ensuring alignment of roadmaps and goals.
• Ability to lead and guide technical teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Managing and advancing the API integration platforms and related infrastructure components, including software upgrades, performance monitoring, and application development team collaboration.
• Helping lead platform enhancement efforts that enable flexible and secure integration between internal and external services.
• Providing guidance and expertise for application service design, data and transaction workflows for scalability, reliability and extensibility.
• Following infrastructure-as-code best practices (Terraform, Helm, Ansible) for repeatable deployments and environment consistency.
• Driving operational excellence through on-call rotation support, post-mortem investigations, and implementing resilience improvements.
• Performing unit testing and complex debugging, and identifying opportunities for automated testing where appropriate.
• Performing analysis of technical feasibility and solution design, including estimation of work efforts, planning, and backlog organization.
• Ensuring upgrades, patching, and platform updates are proactively planned and executed without business disruption.
• Helping set reliability targets and defining operational metrics (availability, latency, error budgets) in line with SRE methodologies.
• Writing detailed technical documentation for systems, including architectural diagrams, and operational procedures.

Skills

API Gateway

HTTP integration

SSL certificates

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

AWS

VPC

IAM

EC2

EKS

Istio

Observability

Splunk

New Relic

Leadership

Communication

Go

JavaScript

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

API Gateway platforms tooling (Tyk)

Go

JavaScript

Python

Job description

Availity, a leading healthcare technology company, is seeking a Platform Engineer III to manage the API gateway platform across enterprise-scale integrations. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to evolve our core integration platform, ensuring secure, reliable service delivery for health plans and providers.

The role requires hands-on IAM/VPC/EKS expertise, IaC using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and strong mentoring skills, with a focus on reliability, observability, and