API Integration and Gateway Specialist

Are you passionate about analyzing technical requirements and developing proposals for change or enhancement on critical systems? Do you have strong analytical skills and attention to detail? Do you have a broad understanding of and interest in the area of technical infrastructure?

At EPAM, we're seeking a talented
Middleware & Infrastructure Engineer
with a focus on
API Management
to join our esteemed team in Zurich. As part of the API Management Infrastructure team, you'll work alongside a group of dynamic experts dedicated to building and maintaining cutting-edge infrastructure that powers our clients' applications.

This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering high-visibility infrastructure that impacts both internal teams and external client offerings. Join a committed team that thrives on innovation, collaboration and technical excellence.

If you're ready to combine your passion for technology with a chance to work on impactful, high-profile projects, EPAM is the place for you

Responsibilities

• Understand the technical drivers for a requested change and analyze them against the existing environment
• Uncover the bigger picture behind a change request and constructively challenge requirements and pre-specified solutions
• Coordinate with up- and downstream interfaces/teams on the technical requirements
• Elicit and document functional and non-functional requirements by using different requirements engineering tools and practices
• Collaborate with other software and test engineers to assist in the implementation of user stories
• Proactively manage project risks and work closely with Product owners and other stakeholders to address them
• Learn and share the knowledge with the team members to constantly improve the ways of working
• Document technical specifications and the product description for end users

Requirements

• Expertise in integrating APIs using platforms such as Google Apigee, Oracle Service Bus, WSO2, Kong or custom-built API gateways
• Experience in designing and implementing secure, scalable and maintainable API solutions in a global, multi-region context
• Good understanding and relevant experience with integrating APIs (REST, SOAP, GraphQL, messaging systems)
• Good understanding of API security concepts (i.e. authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OIDC, OAuth2, mTLS, etc.)
• Familiar with how load balancers work and how traffic is routed across services, understand fundamental load balancer strategies
• Understand a multi-tier application setup and how the components interact with each other
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to support onboarding of client applications and provide consulting on API-first integration strategies
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems
• Understand OpenAPI specifications

Nice to have

• Java knowledge
• Good hands-on experience with Linux system administration (i.e. user management, basic logs, basic troubleshooting, memory and CPU analysis)
• Familiar with Azure core services (i.e. NSG, EntraID, Azure Load balancer)
• AKS knowledge

We offer

• 5 weeks of vacation
• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Enhanced parental leave
• Extended pension plan
• Daily sickness allowance insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Global business travel medical and accident insurance
• Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, over 22,000 courses on LinkedIn Learning Solutions and much more
• *All benefits and perks are subject to certain eligibility requirements

• Please note that any offers will be subject to appropriate background checks

• We do not accept CVs from recruiting or staffing agencies

• For this position, we are able to consider applications from the following:

• • Swiss nationals
• • EU/EFTA nationals
• • Third-country nationals based in Switzerland with an appropriate work permit
• • Displaced people from Ukraine who are currently in Switzerland and hold, or have already applied for, S permits