Apigee Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Nagpur District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in India is seeking an Apigee Technical Lead with deep expertise in Apigee API Gateway, OPDK/SaaS/Hybrid, and cloud-based design to lead architecture discussions with clients.

You will drive proxy development, CI/CD automation, security, and monitoring, mentor engineers, and ensure delivery across the SDLC, leveraging GCP Apigee EDGE and related tools.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of application design and development experience in a cloud environment.
• 4+ years experience of working on Apigee API Gateway for both Apigee Blueprint/Foundation set up, Apigee installation (OPDK/SaaS/Hybrid) and Proxy Development
• 2+ years of coding REST services and API such as: Java, JSON, Python.
• Hands on experience in Apigee API Management, SOAPXML, JSON, NGINX and Cloud technologies like Google Cloud platform or any similar cloud service.
• Experience in Google Cloud Platforms Apigee platform and API development experience through the entire Software Development Lifecycle Process.
• Hands on experience in user interface and web services development.
• Implementation and delivery experience in Google Cloud Platform Apigee EDGE solution.
• Experience in managing Apigee traffic for cutting over from another API Gateway
• Hands on experience in Apigee Configurations, Management and APIGEE testing.
• Experience with CI/CD Tools (Jenkins, GitHub) for Apigee proxies deployment automation.
• Ability to apply security, throttling, OAuth 2.0, TLS, certificates, KeyStore, and Trust store for the Apigee platform
• Hands-on development expertise with the Google Apigee Edge platform including but not limited to installation and configuration
• Experience of analysing API traffic, API performance, API issue diagnosis
• Experience in setting up KPIs, alerts and notification to avoid potential issues due to bots, security, latency and data errors and resolve incidents quickly

Responsibilities

• Lead on APIGEE implementation projects and design Apigee architecture with customer architects and cloud engineers.
• Create proxy flows, templates, security setup and automate proxy migrations and OAS imports.
• Set up developer portal and customize as needed.
• Configure Analytics and Monitoring for Apigee.
• Provide conceptual solutions for APIGEE opportunities.
• Discuss connectivity, security and foundation options for APIGEE.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines for Apigee proxy deployments and testing.
• Support pre-sales with APIGEE-related opportunities.
• Engage with clients to understand the current system and propose recommendations.
• Draft architectural decisions and blueprint solutions to meet project requirements.
• Prepare training materials to enable smooth transition in the new system for users.
• Lead technical discussions with client SMEs and stakeholders for differentiation.
• Review designs for conformance to architecture and provide guidance on coding issues to ensure effective solution development.
• Define KPIs and alerting for API traffic, latency, security, and errors; resolve production issues.

Skills

Apigee API Gateway

OPDK/SaaS/Hybrid

REST API development

Java

Python

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

CI/CD

OAuth 2.0

TLS / certificates

API traffic analysis

Monitoring / Logging

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

NGINX

Splunk

Remedy

ELK

Job description

JD for Apigee Technical Lead

Must have skills

• 3+ years of application design and development experience in a cloud environment
• 4+ years experience of working on Apigee API Gateway for both Apigee Blueprint/Foundation set up, Apigee installation (OPDK/SaaS/Hybrid) and Proxy Development
• 2+ years of coding REST services and API such as: Java, JSON, Python.
• Hands on experience in Apigee API Management, SOAPXML, JSON, NGINX and Cloud technologies like Google Cloud platform or any similar cloud service.
• Experience in Google Cloud Platforms Apigee platform and API development experience through the entire Software Development Lifecycle Process.
• Hands on experience in user interface and web services development.
• Implementation and delivery experience in Google Cloud Platform Apigee EDGE solution.
• Experience in managing Apigee traffic for cutting over from another API Gateway
• Hands on experience in Apigee Configurations, Management and APIGEE testing.
• Experience with CI/CD Tools (Jenkins, GitHub) for Apigee proxies deployment automation.
• Ability to apply security, throttling, OAuth 2.0, TLS, certificates, KeyStore, and Trust store for the Apigee platform
• Hands-on development expertise with the Google Apigee Edge platform including but not limited to installation and configuration
• Experience of analysing API traffic, API performance, API issue diagnosis
• Experience in setting up KPIs, alerts and notification to avoid potential issues due to bots, security, latency and data errors and resolve incidents quickly

Good to have skills

• Knowledge of IBM Software AG /WebMethods, IBM Data Power
• Knowledge of APIGEE Microservice Gateways and Istio Service Mesh
• Knowledge of how to set up Analytics and Reporting on Apigee
• Knowledge of integrating Apigee with incident management, monitoring and logging tools like Splunk, Remedy, ELK, etc.

Key responsibilities

• Work on APIGEE Implementation projects in the capacity to lead on design Apigee architecture along with customer architects and network/cloud engineers
• Creation of proxy flows, templates, security set up and automation of processes like migration of proxies, importing OAS docs, etc.
• Developer portal set up and customisation on need basis
• Configuration of Analytics and Monitoring capabilities of Apigee
• Providing conceptual solutions for APIGEE opportunities
• Participate in discussion on APIGEE options for connectivity, security and foundation
• Set up and work with CI/CD pipelines for Apigee proxy deployments and testing
• Pre-Sales support for detailing of APIGEE related opportunities
• Interact with Client to understand the existing system and expectation and propose the recommendations.
• Creates, consult and reviews Architectural Decisions, architecture solution, performs re-engineering of Architectures to create solution blueprint and meet project requirement.
• Prepare training material if required; to ensure a smooth transition in the new system process for the users
• Leads technical discussions with customer SME and stakeholders to provide technical differentiation in the relationship.
• Evaluates and Reviews Design Frameworks and Methodologies and approves design to achieve functional and non-functional requirements and conformance to the architecture
• Ensure alignment with overall architecture view, creates develops reference codes, provides consultation to team members on complex coding and technical product issues to ensure effective solution development
• Set up Monitoring KPIs and Alerting notifications for APIs based on API traffic, latency, security, errors, etc
• Resolve critical issues coming at live sites, identify and fix critical architectural framework issues related to the product to meet production support requirements.