Description

Job Description

Overview
The Cloud Engineer (API Management) is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting scalable, secure API ecosystems. This role leverages Google Cloud Platform and Apigee to enable high-performance API services, streamline integrations, and enhance developer accessibility through API marketplace capabilities. The position plays a key role in connecting backend services with consumer applications while ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement API proxies, security policies, and traffic management solutions using Apigee (Edge or X) to support scalable API architectures
• Manage API Marketplace and developer portal platforms to enable API discovery, documentation, and self-service capabilities
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for API deployments using tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins to support efficient and reliable releases
• Enforce API security standards including OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and JWT while implementing threat protection, rate limiting, and encryption best practices
• Monitor API performance, latency, and reliability metrics, proactively identifying and resolving issues across distributed systems
• Partner with application and engineering teams to define API contracts (OpenAPI/Swagger), transformation logic, and integration patterns
• Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation, including API specifications and developer-facing resources

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 3–5 years of experience in cloud engineering with a focus on API management or API gateway platforms
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Apigee implementation and support
• Proven experience managing API marketplaces, developer portals, or similar API ecosystem tools
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, or Pulumi
• Experience with containerization and modern architectures, including Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices frameworks

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate