Cloud Engineer-API -Global Industrial

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* SUMMARY:

** The API Cloud Engineer III designs, implements, and operates secure, scalable API platforms across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. This role provides hands-on engineering expertise for Apigee and Azure API Management, enabling consistent API governance, reusable integration patterns, developer self-service, and reliable connectivity between cloud, on-premises, partner, and software-as-a-service environments. The engineer owns solutions across the API lifecycle - from design and automated delivery through security, observability, optimization, and production support - while helping application teams adopt enterprise standards.#

** JOB DUTIES**
* ** Multi-Cloud API Engineering:
** Design, build, configure, and support API proxies, products, policies, gateways, and reusable components in Apigee and Azure API Management.
* ** API Architecture & Governance:
** Establish consistent RESTful design standards, versioning practices, lifecycle controls, naming conventions, and deployment patterns across GCP and Azure.
* ** Security & Compliance:
** Implement OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, mutual TLS, certificates, secrets, threat protection, quotas, and rate limiting in alignment with enterprise security requirements.
* ** Automation & Platform Delivery:
** Develop CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, or Jenkins to deliver repeatable API platform and configuration changes.
* ** Developer

Experience:

** Manage API catalogs, developer portals, documentation, subscriptions, credentials, and onboarding workflows that enable secure consumer self-service.
* ** Reliability & Observability:
** Monitor availability, traffic, latency, errors, capacity, and security events; build dashboards and alerts; troubleshoot incidents; and improve service-level objectives across both clouds.
* ** Connectivity & Integration:
** Engineer secure connectivity to cloud, on-premises, partner, and SaaS backends using private networking, load balancing, DNS, certificates, and identity services.
* ** Technical Leadership:
** Partner with application, security, network, platform, and architecture teams to define API contracts, review designs, document standards, mentor engineers, and drive platform adoption.#
** EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE**
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* Education:

** Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
* ** Core

Experience:

** 5+ years of cloud, integration, or API engineering experience, including production ownership of enterprise API gateway or management platforms.
* ** Multi-Cloud Platforms:
** Hands-on experience with both GCP and Azure, including Apigee and Azure API Management; experience translating common governance and security requirements into platform-specific implementations.
* ** API Lifecycle:
** Experience designing APIs with OpenAPI, publishing products and documentation, managing consumer access, and supporting versioning, deprecation, analytics, and production operations.
* ** Engineering Automation:
** Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and automated delivery using Terraform or equivalent tooling, source control, testing, and CI/CD platforms.
* ** Modern Architecture:
** Experience with microservices, containers, Kubernetes, event-driven integration, private connectivity, and hybrid or multi-cloud architecture patterns.
** KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES**
* ** API Standards:
** Advanced knowledge of RESTful API design, OpenAPI Specification, contract-first development, versioning, and backward compatibility.
* ** Apigee:
** Strong knowledge of Apigee X proxy development, policies, shared flows, products, environments, analytics,…