Cloud API Engineer — GCP & Azure, Apigee & APIM

Motion; Birmingham, Northern (AL, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion in Birmingham, AL seeks an API Cloud Engineer III to design, implement, and operate scalable API platforms across GCP and Azure. You will own API governance, development automation, and secure connectivity between cloud and on-prem environments.

Responsibilities span API proxies, policies, lifecycle, security, and developer experience, with emphasis on enterprise standards and observability. Strong IaC and cloud platform mastery are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a technical field.
• 5+ years in cloud, integration, or API engineering with production API gateways.
• Hands-on with GCP and Azure in Apigee and Azure API Management; govern security standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure, and support API proxies, products, policies, gateways, and reusable components.
• Establish RESTful design standards, versioning, and deployment patterns across clouds.
• Implement OAuth2, OIDC, JWT validation, mTLS, certs, secrets, and rate limiting per security baselines.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and IaC with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
• Manage API catalogs, developer portals, documentation, subscriptions, and onboarding workflows.
• Monitor availability, latency, errors, capacity, and security events; optimize SLAs across clouds.
• Engineer secure connectivity to cloud/on-prem/partner/SaaS backends using private networking.

Skills

OpenAPI

Apigee X

Azure API Management

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Security best practices

Multicloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Apigee X

Azure API Management

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Job description

Motion in Birmingham, AL seeks an API Cloud Engineer III to design, implement, and operate scalable API platforms across GCP and Azure. You will own API governance, development automation, and secure connectivity between cloud and on-prem environments.

Responsibilities span API proxies, policies, lifecycle, security, and developer experience, with emphasis on enterprise standards and observability. Strong IaC and cloud platform mastery are required.