Apigee Developer

Valiant Technologies LLC; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking an experienced API Architect to own Apigee-driven governance, security, and lifecycle automation for enterprise APIs. You will lead API design, developer enablement, and platform monitoring to ensure reliable and scalable API delivery.

The role requires hands-on Apigee delivery, strong API design skills, cloud/container deployment, and DevOps practices. Communication with stakeholders and leadership on API strategy is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• Extensive enterprise integration and API-management experience with hands-on Apigee delivery.
• Strong knowledge of API design, gateway policies, security, analytics, cloud/container deployment, and DevOps.
• Experience leading API governance and consumer enablement across large organizations.
• Apigee certification or equivalent advanced API-management expertise preferred.

Responsibilities

• Owns Apigee architecture, API governance, security, lifecycle automation, product management, developer enablement, monitoring, and operational readiness for APIs supporting utility customer and enterprise processes.
• Drives developer enablement and monitoring for APIs, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Defines API standards for design, naming, versioning, documentation, reuse, deprecation, ownership, review, and publication.
• Sets security standards for OAuth/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, API keys, threat protection, and data handling.
• Leads CI/CD, automated policy testing, configuration management, and release controls.

Skills

Apigee architecture

API governance

Security

Lifecycle automation

DevOps

Developer enablement

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Apigee

Splunk

Grafana

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Job description

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Job Description :
API proxies, products, and shared flows
REST APIs and OpenAPI
OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, and mTLS
API threat protection and traffic management
Developer portal and API catalog
Kubernetes and Docker
Git and CI/CD automation
Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, or Prometheus
IBM ACE/APIC, Kafka, or MQ integration

Roles & Responsibilities:
Owns Apigee architecture, API governance, security, lifecycle automation, product management, developer enablement, monitoring, and operational readiness for APIs supporting utility customer and enterprise processes.
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
Extensive enterprise integration and API-management experience with hands-on Apigee delivery.
Strong knowledge of API design, gateway policies, security, analytics, cloud/container deployment, and DevOps.
Experience leading API governance and consumer enablement across large organizations.
Apigee certification or equivalent advanced API-management expertise preferred.
Key Words to search in Resume
Define Apigee target architecture, organization and environment model, network connectivity, deployment topology, governance, and platform roadmap.
Establish API design, naming, versioning, documentation, reuse, deprecation, ownership, review, and publication standards.
Design API proxies, shared flows, policies, products, plans, applications, developer access, quotas, and traffic-management controls.
Set security standards for OAuth/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, API keys, threat protection, CORS, secrets, certificates, and sensitive-data handling.
Lead API enablement for SAP IS-U, CDG, MDM, Salesforce, portals, mobile, payments, GIS, analytics, and third-party consumers.
Define developer portal, API catalog, onboarding, subscription, entitlement, support, and adoption processes.
Set monitoring, logging, analytics, traceability, latency, error-rate, capacity, availability, and alerting requirements.
Establish CI/CD, automated policy testing, configuration management, environment promotion, rollback, and release controls.
Lead performance analysis, production incidents, security remediation, platform upgrades, disaster recovery, and operational-readiness reviews.
Facilitate design governance, mentor API teams, manage vendor escalations, and maintain reference patterns and runbooks.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.