What are we looking for in our API Infrastructure Engineer?

The Information Technology team at Russell Tobin & Associates is supporting a top multinational Investment company; that has an opening for a API Infrastructure Engineer .
Location: New York, NY
Pay Range: $65/h - $80/h, depending upon experience
Duration: 9 months contract on W2
Duties:
Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable API infrastructure to support various internal and external applications.
Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to define API requirements and specifications.
Implement best practices for API design, versioning, security, and documentation.
Optimize API performance, scalability, and reliability through monitoring, testing, and tuning.
Troubleshoot and resolve API-related issues in a timely manner, ensuring minimal disruption to services.
Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in API development and infrastructure.
Skills:
HTTP/HTTP2
NGINX or comparable
Grpc
Protocol Buffers
Java
Python
Required Skills:
DOCUMENTATION
API
JAVA
NGINX
RPC
Additional Skills:
HTTP
PYTHON

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors.

Rate/Salary: $65/H - $80/H, depending upon experience