System Engineer - API Management - Freelance

Context

The business unit Marketing & Sales plays a key role in the fast-changing energy market. It offers tailor-made solutions for each customer, characterized by quality and close support and acts through marketing subsidiaries and partnerships with local operators. They ensure a fresh perspective – not only with regard to the products supplied but also in relation to the way in which they are provided and the relationship with customers generally.

To support this vision, the objective is to:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy high quality systems in an integrated systems landscape
• Manage the technical operation of these systems within the defined agreements with the customer

At the cutting edge of digital transformation, a leading global energy company is investing in state-of-the-art information technology and advanced data science to put digital technology at the heart of everything the Group does, establishing itself as a leading force in the global energy transition.

Missions

• Advise and manage the set-up of the API Management platform
• Work technology agnostic to assist in future vendor/solution assessments (current solution relies on KONG)
• Align with enterprise architecture and technical architects on the API middleware
• Structure and maintain API documentation, define and enforce API policies
• Support teams in designing secure, consistent, and reusable APIs
• Ensure governance, observability, and compliance across the API lifecycle while coordinating with development, product, and security teams
• Contribute to container-based platform services design, maintenance, and evolution with hands-on experience in Kubernetes
• Evolve the position toward platform engineering, contributing to automation, self-service capabilities, and the industrialization of API delivery and operations

Tools & Environment

• API management principles and tools:
  • KONG
  • GOOGLE APIGEE
• GraphQL
• AWS services: EKS, SQS, S3
• CI/CD pipelines knowledge
• Monitoring and logging in cloud-native environments:
  • ELK
  • Datadog
• Kubernetes
• Understanding of Java Spring Boot development
• Languages: English, Dutch & French

Nice to Have / Bonus Skills

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL
• Kafka (Confluent)