This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Apigee Cloud Engineer based in India.
Join a cloud engineering team working on enterprise-grade API management and secure digital integrations.
In this contract role, you’ll design, deploy, secure, and automate API workflows across Google Cloud environments.
You’ll work extensively with Apigee X, GCP networking, API security, backend integrations, and multi-environment CI/CD pipelines.
Your expertise will help create reliable, scalable, and secure API platforms connecting diverse internal and external systems.
The role combines hands-on engineering, automation, troubleshooting, security, and operational excellence.
You’ll have the opportunity to solve complex integration challenges and improve API performance and reliability.
This is a focused, fully remote engagement suited to an experienced cloud and API engineering professional who can deliver quickly and independently.
Accountabilities
- Design, configure, and manage Apigee X API proxies, shared flows, target servers, environment groups, and related API management components.
- Configure and manage GCP networking infrastructure, including VPCs, Private Service Connect, load balancing, and Cloud Armor.
- Implement enterprise-grade API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT validation, mTLS, API keys, and custom authorization mechanisms.
- Manage API credentials, certificates, keys, and secrets securely using GCP Secret Manager, Apigee Key-Value Maps, or comparable solutions.
- Configure backend target servers, routing, TLS/mTLS connections, and certificate management across internal and external endpoints.
- Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for Apigee artifacts across development, staging, and production environments using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Terraform, or similar tools.
- Conduct end-to-end API testing and use tracing and debugging tools to investigate request/response flows, latency issues, integration failures, and production incidents.
- Support API health, monitoring, and operational reliability through logging, alerting, performance analysis, and proactive troubleshooting.
- Where relevant, contribute to integrations involving enterprise financial or treasury platforms and automated operational workflows.
Requirements
- Proven hands-on experience with Apigee X architecture, API proxies, shared flows, KVMs, target servers, and API management.
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform networking, particularly VPCs, Private Service Connect, load balancing, and related infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of API security protocols and mechanisms, including OAuth 2.0, JWT token validation, API key management, mTLS, and SSL/TLS.
- Practical experience with secrets and credential management using GCP Secret Manager, Apigee KVMs, HashiCorp Vault, or similar technologies.
- Hands-on expertise configuring backend integrations, target endpoints, TLS/mTLS connections, and certificates.
- Experience automating Apigee deployments across multiple environments using CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Cloud Build, or Terraform.
- Proficiency with API testing and debugging tools such as Postman, Bruno, curl, and native Apigee tracing capabilities.
- Experience configuring monitoring and observability using GCP Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and operational alerting is advantageous.
- Experience with Google Apps Script for automated integrations or custom workflows is a plus.
- Exposure to enterprise financial systems or treasury platforms, such as APIs for financial management solutions, is desirable.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently in a contract environment.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, with a strong focus on security, reliability, and delivery quality.
- Ability to work remotely from India and complete the engagement without visa sponsorship or transfer support.
Benefits
- Fully remote work opportunity from India.
- Full-time contract engagement.
- Defined 5-week engagement at approximately 40 hours per week.
- Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale API management and cloud integration challenges.
- Hands-on exposure to Apigee X, Google Cloud Platform, cloud networking, API security, and CI/CD automation.
- Opportunity to work with modern security, observability, and infrastructure automation practices.
- Focused project scope suited to experienced cloud and API engineering professionals.
- International, collaborative environment with exposure to complex enterprise technology ecosystems.
- Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available for this position.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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