Remote Senior Platform Engineer — API Gateway

TEKsystems; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Platform Engineer III to contribute to the core integration platform for U.S. healthcare systems. You will manage enterprise-scale API Gateway platforms, drive automated integration, and mentor engineers from a remote location within the US.

The role emphasizes IaC with Terraform/Ansible/Helm, AWS services, and observability using Splunk/New Relic. Strong communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 4-6 years of IT systems delivery, operations, and support (healthcare or high-transaction environments).
• 3+ years of technical engineering efforts involving IT systems implementation and management.
• Hands-on API Gateway management at scale.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Helm and AWS services.
• Experience with observability tools like Splunk or New Relic.
• Ability to bridge infra and development teams and lead technical initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Manage and evolve API Gateway integration platforms at enterprise scale.
• Provide tooling and support for automated integration workflows.
• Refine API definition standards and enable scalable API ecosystem innovation.
• Mentor junior engineers and uphold operational excellence.
• Lead platform enhancement for secure internal/external service integration.
• Guide service design and data/workflows for reliability and extensibility.
• Define IaC deployment practices for repeatability and consistency.
• Drive on-call rotations, post-mortems, and resilience improvements.
• Contribute to technical documentation and architectural diagrams.

Skills

API Gateway

API authentication

SSL/TLS

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

AWS (VPC IAM EC2 EKS Istio)

Observability

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Splunk

New Relic

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Platform Engineer III to contribute to the core integration platform for U.S. healthcare systems. You will manage enterprise-scale API Gateway platforms, drive automated integration, and mentor engineers from a remote location within the US.

The role emphasizes IaC with Terraform/Ansible/Helm, AWS services, and observability using Splunk/New Relic. Strong communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams are essential for success.