Azure API Platform Engineer - Cloud & Automation

STATE STREET CORPORATION; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Paid time off

Volunteer days

Employee networks

Job summary

Charles River Development, part of State Street, is seeking an experienced API Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate secure enterprise APIs on Microsoft Azure. You will drive DevOps practices, IaC modules, automation, and scalable deployments while collaborating with application teams, security, and DevOps engineers to deliver reliable API solutions.

The ideal candidate has strong expertise in enterprise API management, RESTful and gRPC APIs, OpenAPI standards, and cloud-native

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of API engineering / cloud development experience.
• Azure certifications are preferred.
• Experience in financial services is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, secure, deploy, and manage enterprise APIs on Azure.
• Maintain API gateways, service mesh, versioning, governance.
• Troubleshoot and optimize API performance and reliability.
• Develop API management policies: auth, rate limiting, caching, IP filtering.
• Integrate APIs with Azure Entra ID and other Azure services.
• Automate deployment and policy management with CI/CD and IaC.
• Monitor health, dashboards, alerts; support incidents and RCA.
• Collaborate with architects, security, and DevOps teams.

Skills

API design

OpenAPI/Swagger

RESTful APIs

Azure cloud

DevOps automation

IaC (Terraform/Bicep)

Security & Zero Trust

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Education

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

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

ARM Templates

Bicep

Terraform

Azure AD / Entra ID

Azure API Management

Job description

Charles River Development, part of State Street, is seeking an experienced API Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate secure enterprise APIs on Microsoft Azure. You will drive DevOps practices, IaC modules, automation, and scalable deployments while collaborating with application teams, security, and DevOps engineers to deliver reliable API solutions.

The ideal candidate has strong expertise in enterprise API management, RESTful and gRPC APIs, OpenAPI standards, and cloud-native