What are the responsibilities and job description for the Integration Platform Engineer position at Apex Systems?
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Job Description:
Integration Platform Engineer
Apex Systems is seeking an experienced Integration Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the integration and messaging platforms that support a major modernization and migration to AWS. This role focuses on delivering secure, scalable, and highly available integration services-including API gateways, messaging clusters, event streaming, and service-to-service communication-while enabling application teams through automation, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native patterns. You will work closely with Cloud Architecture, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, and Security teams to ensure all integration workloads meet organizational security requirements.
Build, deploy, and operate integration platforms such as API gateways, messaging clusters, and event-driven services (e.g., Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Amazon MQ, Amazon MSK).
Support modernization of legacy middleware integrations (JBoss/WebLogic) into API-based and event-driven architectures.
Implement secure, scalable service-to-service communication patterns including mTLS, JWT, OAuth2/OIDC, and Zero Trust-aligned access controls.
Manage containerized integration workloads on ECS Fargate, EKS, or Kubernetes clusters.
Build and maintain API lifecycle components, including routing, throttling, versioning, schema validation, and developer onboarding.
Implement high-availability, disaster recovery, and cross-region replication strategies for messaging and integration clusters.
Ensure integration platforms meet organizational and auditability requirements for authentication, authorization, logging, and traceability.
Apply AI-assisted observability and anomaly detection to improve integration reliability and reduce incident noise.
Automation, IaC & Integration Delivery Enablement
Build and maintain IaC for integration platforms using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Develop reusable modules and templates for provisioning clusters, brokers, API gateways, and integration components.
Implement Git-based workflows with automated plan/apply pipelines for integration infrastructure.
Automate provisioning of queues, topics, API routes, certificates, and IAM roles using CI/CD pipelines.
Build runbook automation for cluster operations using AWS Systems Manager, Ansible Automation Platform.
Implement drift detection and automated remediation for integration infrastructure.
Enable application teams with self-service provisioning for APIs, messaging resources, and integration endpoints.
Use generative AI to accelerate IaC creation, integration mapping, documentation, and runbook generation.
Observability, Monitoring & Reliability Engineering
Build centralized logging, metrics, and tracing pipelines for integration workloads using CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Elastic Stack, or Datadog.
Implement distributed tracing across APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems.
Build alerting, dashboards, and operational playbooks for integration platforms.
Support SRE practices including SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and blameless incident reviews.
Implement automated health checks, scaling policies, and resilience patterns for messaging and API clusters.
Integrate integration platforms with CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent deployment and operational readiness.
Apply AI/ML for log correlation, predictive scaling, and automated incident triage.
What You Bring
Required
Hands-on experience operating integration or messaging platforms (SQS, Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Amazon MQ, or similar).
Experience with API gateways, service mesh, or microservice communication patterns.
Strong proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible.
Experience with Kubernetes, ECS, or containerized integration workloads.
Understanding of authentication, authorization, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and Zero Trust patterns.
Experience building observability pipelines for distributed systems.
Familiarity with PCI, CJIS, NIST, or similar compliance frameworks.
Experience supporting application teams through integration services or platform tooling.
Preferred
Experience with a broad range of AWS services, including CloudFront, S3, Cloud Map, DataSync, CloudTrail, AppMesh, SQS, GuardDuty, AWS Inspector, Route 53, Security Groups, Subnets, Network ACLs, WAF, IAM, and VPC Endpoints.
Experience migrating legacy middleware integrations to API-based or event-driven architectures.
Experience with schema registries, event versioning, and contract testing.
Experience with AFT, AWS Service Catalog, or Crossplane for integration provisioning.
Background in SRE, reliability engineering, or cluster operations.
Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Confluent Kafka Developer, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or CompTIA Security or equivalent.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
Job Description:
Integration Platform Engineer
Apex Systems is seeking an experienced Integration Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the integration and messaging platforms that support a major modernization and migration to AWS. This role focuses on delivering secure, scalable, and highly available integration services-including API gateways, messaging clusters, event streaming, and service-to-service communication-while enabling application teams through automation, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native patterns. You will work closely with Cloud Architecture, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, and Security teams to ensure all integration workloads meet organizational security requirements.
Build, deploy, and operate integration platforms such as API gateways, messaging clusters, and event-driven services (e.g., Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Amazon MQ, Amazon MSK).
Support modernization of legacy middleware integrations (JBoss/WebLogic) into API-based and event-driven architectures.
Implement secure, scalable service-to-service communication patterns including mTLS, JWT, OAuth2/OIDC, and Zero Trust-aligned access controls.
Manage containerized integration workloads on ECS Fargate, EKS, or Kubernetes clusters.
Build and maintain API lifecycle components, including routing, throttling, versioning, schema validation, and developer onboarding.
Implement high-availability, disaster recovery, and cross-region replication strategies for messaging and integration clusters.
Ensure integration platforms meet organizational and auditability requirements for authentication, authorization, logging, and traceability.
Apply AI-assisted observability and anomaly detection to improve integration reliability and reduce incident noise.
Automation, IaC & Integration Delivery Enablement
Build and maintain IaC for integration platforms using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Develop reusable modules and templates for provisioning clusters, brokers, API gateways, and integration components.
Implement Git-based workflows with automated plan/apply pipelines for integration infrastructure.
Automate provisioning of queues, topics, API routes, certificates, and IAM roles using CI/CD pipelines.
Build runbook automation for cluster operations using AWS Systems Manager, Ansible Automation Platform.
Implement drift detection and automated remediation for integration infrastructure.
Enable application teams with self-service provisioning for APIs, messaging resources, and integration endpoints.
Use generative AI to accelerate IaC creation, integration mapping, documentation, and runbook generation.
Observability, Monitoring & Reliability Engineering
Build centralized logging, metrics, and tracing pipelines for integration workloads using CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Elastic Stack, or Datadog.
Implement distributed tracing across APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems.
Build alerting, dashboards, and operational playbooks for integration platforms.
Support SRE practices including SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and blameless incident reviews.
Implement automated health checks, scaling policies, and resilience patterns for messaging and API clusters.
Integrate integration platforms with CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent deployment and operational readiness.
Apply AI/ML for log correlation, predictive scaling, and automated incident triage.
What You Bring
Required
Hands-on experience operating integration or messaging platforms (SQS, Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Amazon MQ, or similar).
Experience with API gateways, service mesh, or microservice communication patterns.
Strong proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible.
Experience with Kubernetes, ECS, or containerized integration workloads.
Understanding of authentication, authorization, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and Zero Trust patterns.
Experience building observability pipelines for distributed systems.
Familiarity with PCI, CJIS, NIST, or similar compliance frameworks.
Experience supporting application teams through integration services or platform tooling.
Preferred
Experience with a broad range of AWS services, including CloudFront, S3, Cloud Map, DataSync, CloudTrail, AppMesh, SQS, GuardDuty, AWS Inspector, Route 53, Security Groups, Subnets, Network ACLs, WAF, IAM, and VPC Endpoints.
Experience migrating legacy middleware integrations to API-based or event-driven architectures.
Experience with schema registries, event versioning, and contract testing.
Experience with AFT, AWS Service Catalog, or Crossplane for integration provisioning.
Background in SRE, reliability engineering, or cluster operations.
Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Confluent Kafka Developer, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or CompTIA Security or equivalent.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.