Senior Apigee Architect & Platform Reliability Engineer

AutoZone; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 125,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

AutoZone is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to design, implement, and maintain Apigee-driven APIs and policies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable, secure API architectures and troubleshoot issues to optimize performance.

The role requires 6–8 years of Apigee experience in large-scale production, with strong problem-solving and communication abilities to drive API governance, monitoring, and security across environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field required.
• 6–8 years designing, implementing Apigee in large-scale prod.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, configure, and troubleshoot APIs and policies using Apigee X.
• Define API architecture, integration and deployment of API management platforms.
• Health checks & monitoring for Apigee components and APIs.
• Apigee Gateway knowledge and cloud security awareness.
• HA, load balancing, DR configuration with Apigee.
• Support & upgrades for production/non-prod environments.
• Apply API best practices and performance tuning.
• Manage installation, configuration, maintenance, and issue resolution.
• Deploy proxies and artifacts, collect logs, monitor health.
• Build and support APIs across full lifecycle.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams; participate in agile ceremonies.
• L2/L3 support for Apigee to ensure high availability.
• Handle incidents/changes; ensure SLAs are met.

Skills

Apigee architecture

API design

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Unix shell scripting

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Apigee

Docker

Kubernetes

Splunk

Dynatrace

Datadog

Grafana

AppDynamics

Ansible

Job description

AutoZone is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to design, implement, and maintain Apigee-driven APIs and policies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable, secure API architectures and troubleshoot issues to optimize performance.

The role requires 6–8 years of Apigee experience in large-scale production, with strong problem-solving and communication abilities to drive API governance, monitoring, and security across environments.