API Integration Engineer

Job title: API Integration Engineer Job Location: Richardson, TXJob Type: FulltimeRoles & ResponsibilitiesStrong expertise in Microservices architecture with practical experience designing, deploying, and supporting distributed systems in production environmentsDeep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes (deployment management, scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting, cluster operations) with a focus on reliability, resilience, and performanceProficiency with API Gateway platforms such as Azure API Management (APIM), Kong, and IBM API Connect (APIC) for traffic management, rate limiting, routing, and API observabilityExperience with observability tooling, including Splunk, AppDynamics, Instana, or similar solutions—covering log analytics, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, & SLO-based monitoringAbility to diagnose and resolve complex production issues, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement preventative measuresFamiliarity with SRE best practices, including error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, post mortems, automation, and continuous improvementExperience with performance tuning, capacity planning, and improving system reliability through scalable architectures and elimination of toilTechnical/Functional SkillsKubernetes, Azure API Management (APIM), Kong, IBM API Connect (APIC), observability tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Instana