ApigeeX Engineer: Cloud API & Automation Leader

Ventures Unlimited, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ventures Unlimited, Inc. is seeking an API Management Engineer to lead design, deployment, and maintenance of APIGEE Hybrid and APIGEE X environments in the United States.

You will collaborate with architects, optimize CI/CD pipelines, leverage Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms, and ensure high availability of API services.

Ideal candidates have hands-on experience with security, logging (Splunk), and cross-functional teamwork in an Agile/SAFe setting.

Qualifications

• Experience installing, configuring, deploying, maintaining APIGEE Hybrid and Apigee X.
• Proficient in developing APIs in APIGEE and troubleshooting API failures.
• Familiar with Postman, JMeter and related testing tools.
• Strong knowledge of XML, JSON, SOAP/REST, OAuth 2.0, JWT, SSO, and transformations.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for Apigee.
• Expertise in Kubernetes for automated deployment, scaling and management.
• Experience with containerization.
• Experience with source control tools such as Bitbucket and Git.
• Proficient in Python, Go, Bash and/or PowerShell.
• Solid understanding of AGILE, SCRUM and SAFe.
• Hands-on experience with Enterprise API Management and Cloud platforms.
• Cloud engineering experience across Azure, AWS, GCP.

Responsibilities

• Implements Enterprise API and Integration platforms strategy for ApigeeX infrastructure.
• Perform cert renewals and update GCP secret managers for deploying the certs using Automation.
• Deploy APIGEE X using existing automation written in Terraform.
• Enhance automation scripts (Terraform, Python, Ansible) for ApigeeX upgrades.
• Capacity planning and infrastructure expansion for APIGEE X.
• Monitoring, Alerting, Troubleshooting of APIs deployed on APIGEE X.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infra issues for APIGEE X deployments.
• Collaborate with API and Integration architects on design, testing, deployment and support.
• Work with 3rd party logging tools Splunk, ApigeeX analytics and generate reports.
• Work on automations on Google Cloud Platform.
• Develop pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Identify dependencies and roadblocks and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

APIGEE Hybrid

APIGEE X

API development

Postman

JMeter

XML/JSON

OAuth 2.0

JWT

SSO

CI/CD automation

Kubernetes

Containerization

Git

Python

Go

PowerShell

Agile Scrum SAFe

Terraform

Ansible

Google Cloud Platform

Azure

AWS

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Google Cloud Platform

Azure

AWS

Splunk

Job description

Ventures Unlimited, Inc. is seeking an API Management Engineer to lead design, deployment, and maintenance of APIGEE Hybrid and APIGEE X environments in the United States.

You will collaborate with architects, optimize CI/CD pipelines, leverage Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms, and ensure high availability of API services.

Ideal candidates have hands-on experience with security, logging (Splunk), and cross-functional teamwork in an Agile/SAFe setting.