Senior Apigee Developer — API Migration Specialist

Cognizant; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

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Career growth opportunities

Education & training support

Wellness & benefits

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Apigee Developer to lead assessment, redesign, and migration of enterprise APIs from Apigee to a target API management platform. You will work with API architects, platform engineers, and security teams to deliver migration waves with minimal disruption for consumers.

The role requires hands-on Apigee expertise, strong integration engineering, and the ability to translate proxies and policies into target-platform implementations.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of integration/API engineering experience with substantial hands-on Apigee.
• Experience with Apigee Edge, X, Hybrid or OPDK including proxies, policies and shared flows.
• Strong REST API design and SOAP/XML integration knowledge.
• Security expertise: OAuth 2.0, JWT, SAML, TLS/mTLS, API keys and enterprise identity.
• OpenAPI/Swagger documentation and lifecycle governance experience.
• Scripting in JavaScript and shell; node.js or Spring Boot for extensions.
• Git, Jenkins, CI/CD and Postman for testing and deployment.
• Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, Anthos, Istio/service mesh, network and IAM knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current Apigee estate and map source-to-target routing and transformations.
• Refactor or rebuild API implementations on the target platform while preserving behaviour.
• Create and maintain API documentation, OpenAPI specs and developer onboarding content.
• Build migration utilities and automated deployment packages for consistent API waves.
• Plan migrations, cutovers, and rollback arrangements with stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and code reviews to ensure governance and security standards.

Skills

Apigee

REST API design

OpenAPI/Swagger

JavaScript

Node.js

Spring Boot

Git

Jenkins

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Postman

Tools

Apigee Edge/XP/Hybrid/OPDK

GKE

Istio/Service Mesh

Cloud platforms

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Apigee Developer to lead assessment, redesign, and migration of enterprise APIs from Apigee to a target API management platform. You will work with API architects, platform engineers, and security teams to deliver migration waves with minimal disruption for consumers.

The role requires hands-on Apigee expertise, strong integration engineering, and the ability to translate proxies and policies into target-platform implementations.