Senior Systems Engineer-Apigee

AutoZone; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AutoZone is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to design, implement, and maintain Apigee-based APIs and architectures in a large-scale environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable API platforms and resolve incidents in production.

The role requires strong Apigee X knowledge, cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), and familiarity with CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and monitoring tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or related field; Master’s preferred.
• 6–8 years designing, implementing, and supporting Apigee in large-scale production environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Apigee APIs, policies, and configurations.
• Define overall API architecture, deployment, and security for API management.
• Monitor health checks and performance across Apigee components and APIs.
• Provide L2/L3 production support and handle incidents and changes.
• Lead root-cause analyses and coordinate cross-functional teams to prevent recurrence.
• Deploy proxies and artifacts, manage logs, health checks, and updates.

Skills

Apigee X

API design

API security

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Unix shell scripting

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Apigee X

Splunk

Dynatrace

Datadog

Grafana

AppD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

AutoZone is looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer as a Senior Engineer for Apigee, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining solutions for our organization. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop scalable and secure Apigee architectures, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance.The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Apigee technologies and possess excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

• Design, develop, configure, and troubleshoot APIs and policies using Apigee X.
• Defining overall API architecture/ implementations, integration and deployment of API management platforms and API security and Access control (SAML, Web SSO, SSL/TLS etc)
• Knowledge of health checks & Monitoring for Apigee components and API using Various tool, Configuration management systems.
• Apigee Gateway Knowledge and Cloud architecture and security.
• Experience with High availability, load balancing and failover, DR configuration with Apigee.
• Support & Upgrade Apigee Production/Non-Prod Environments.
• Implementing API Best Practices and Performance Tuning.
• Managing installation, configuration, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and quick resolution of problems of the most complex nature.
• Deployment of proxies and other artifacts of Apigee environment, configuration updates, log collection, health check and monitoring, etc.
• Build and support the API during the full lifecycle.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
• 6 to 8 years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting Apigee solutions in a large-scale production environment.
• Unix Shell Scripting and Ansible Experience. CI/CD experience (set up of CI/CD desirable).
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and container technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Maintain documentation for the technical deliverables when applicable.
• Prepare and participate in presentation and demonstrations of developed solutions.
• Collaborate and work closely with other team members.
• Participate in agile meetings such as but not limited to: sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily status meetings, story pointing.
• Provide L2/L3 support for Apigee platform to ensure platform is highly available.
• Working on production support Incidents/Service request/Changes and ensure SLAs are met.
• Help consumers and IT stakeholders by providing solutions for the issues reported in the platform.
• Lead root cause analysis session to understand Production issues and produce solutions that will prevent them from happening in the future.
• Experience in monitor tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana, APPD.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Certifications such as Certified in Apigee, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, GCP or related certifications are a plus.