Job Description

Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private client, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.
Introduction: Robertson is seeking a skilled IT - Specialty Developer V to join our client in support of an existing vacancy.
Contract Period: 12 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Rate: Starting from $85 per hour
Location: Toronto, ON
Location Type: Hybrid; onsite 4 days a week
Business Hours: Monday to Friday; Core Business Hours
Job Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary technical lead for Apigee Hybrid, providing hands-on engineering leadership across runtime, ingress, routing, shared flows, and platform components.
• Lead operational readiness activities and cross training for our team including installation, upgrading, scaling, automation, monitoring, and ongoing platform maintenance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve go-live production issues, performing root cause analyses and driving long-term reliability improvements.
• Consult with infrastructure hosting team and vendor partners with GKE infrastructure supporting the Apigee runtime: node pools, RBAC, workload identity, certificates, and cluster networking.
• Partner with cloud, security, and networking teams to maintain network flows and controls for Apigee, including DNS, firewalls, load balancers, and north/south traffic routing.
• Support API Management DevOps team improve our existing CI/CD processes for API proxies, shared flows, bundles, and configuration deployments using GitOps automation.
• Establish and maintain platform standards, onboarding patterns, reusable assets, and operational documentation for development teams.
• Collaborate with architects and product teams to ensure secure API design, adherence to governance controls, and alignment with enterprise architecture.

Experience & Qualification Requirements:

• 5+ years in Solutions Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, or similar roles
• Hands-on experience with Apigee Hybrid in production environments
• Strong expertise with GCP, GKE, and Kubernetes (networking, workloads, security, scaling)
• Solid understanding of enterprise networking concepts: DNS, firewalls, VPC design, load balancers, routing, mTLS
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Terraform, Cloud Build, or similar tooling
• Strong grasp of API security (OAuth, JWT, mTLS), quotas, rate limiting, and operational governance
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to guide engineers and work across diverse technology teams.

Background screening is required as part of the onboarding process. The type of screening required (criminal, credit, or other verifications) will vary based on the position and client requirements.
We use AI technology as part of our application review process to assist with screening and assessment. All applications are also reviewed by our recruitment team.
How to Apply: If you are a motivated professional looking to contribute to a leading team, please submit your resume outlining your qualifications and experience relevant to this role. Robertson & the clients we represent, value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We invite all qualified individuals to apply.
Robertson & the clients we represent are equal opportunity employers, committed to diversity and inclusion. Robertson is a certified diverse supplier and actively seeks to foster a representative and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, Aboriginal status, or any other legally protected factors. We champion building a diverse and inclusive environment. #LI-S1

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