Integration Platform Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Integration Platform Engineer to design, build, and manage secure, scalable, and highly available integration platforms supporting a large-scale AWS modernization initiative. This role focuses on API management, messaging systems, event-driven architecture, and enabling application teams through automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Key Responsibilities

Integration Platform Engineering

• Design, build, and operate API gateways, messaging systems, and event-driven platforms (Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Amazon MQ, MSK).
• Modernize legacy middleware (JBoss/WebLogic) into API-based and event-driven architectures.
• Implement secure service-to-service communication (mTLS, OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, Zero Trust).
• Manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes, ECS Fargate, or EKS.
• Develop API lifecycle capabilities: routing, throttling, versioning, and validation.
• Implement high availability, disaster recovery, and cross-region replication.
• Ensure compliance with CJIS, COV, FBI security standards.

Automation & IaC

• Build and maintain IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Develop reusable modules for APIs, messaging clusters, and infrastructure.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for automated provisioning and deployment.
• Enable self-service provisioning for application teams.
• Automate runbooks using AWS Systems Manager and Ansible.
• Implement drift detection and automated remediation.
• Leverage AI tools for IaC generation, documentation, and automation.

Observability & Reliability Engineering

• Build centralized logging, monitoring, and tracing systems (CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace).
• Implement distributed tracing across microservices and event-driven systems.
• Define SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and incident management practices.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and operational playbooks.
• Enable predictive scaling and automated incident response using AI/ML.

Required Skills

• Hands-on experience with messaging/integration platforms (Kafka, SQS, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Amazon MQ).
• Experience with API gateways and microservices communication.
• Strong expertise in Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or Ansible.
• Experience with Kubernetes, ECS, or container-based environments.
• Knowledge of security protocols: mTLS, OAuth2, JWT, OIDC, Zero Trust.
• Experience with observability tools and distributed systems monitoring.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (CJIS, NIST, PCI).
• Experience supporting application teams with platform services.

Preferred Skills

• Strong AWS experience (S3, CloudFront, CloudTrail, App Mesh, Route 53, IAM, VPC, GuardDuty, etc.).
• Experience migrating legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.
• Knowledge of schema registries, event versioning, and contract testing.
• Experience with AWS Service Catalog, Crossplane, or AFT.
• Background in SRE or platform engineering.