Cloud Engineer-API -Global Industrial

Motion Industries; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Industries is seeking an API Cloud Engineer III to design, implement, and operate secure, scalable API platforms across GCP and Azure. You will own API lifecycle from design to production, ensuring governance, reusable patterns, and developer self-service.

You will lead multi-cloud API engineering, set standards, implement security controls, and deliver automation via CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of cloud, integration, or API engineering experience with enterprise API gateways/management.
• Hands-on with GCP and Azure, Apigee and Azure API Management.
• Experience designing APIs with OpenAPI, publishing products, managing access, versioning, analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure, and support API proxies, products, policies, gateways in Apigee and Azure API Management.
• Establish RESTful design standards, versioning, lifecycle controls across GCP and Azure.
• Implement OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, MTLS, certificates, secrets, threat protection.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
• Manage API catalogs, developer portals, documentation, subscriptions, and onboarding workflows.
• Monitor availability, latency, errors, capacity; build dashboards and alerts; improve SLAs.

Skills

RESTful API design

Apigee X

Azure API Management

GCP IAM

Networking & security

Terraform

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Job description

Birmingham, AL, USA

Atlanta, GA, USA

Full time

SUMMARY

The API Cloud Engineer III designs, implements, and operates secure, scalable API platforms across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. This role provides hands‑on engineering expertise for Apigee and Azure API Management, enabling consistent API governance, reusable integration patterns, developer self‑service, and reliable connectivity between cloud, on‑premises, partner, and software‑as‑a‑service environments. The engineer owns solutions across the API lifecycle—from design and automated delivery through security, observability, optimization, and production support-while helping application teams adopt enterprise standards.

JOB DUTIES

• Multi-Cloud API Engineering: Design, build, configure, and support API proxies, products, policies, gateways, and reusable components in Apigee and Azure API Management.
• API Architecture & Governance: Establish consistent RESTful design standards, versioning practices, lifecycle controls, naming conventions, and deployment patterns across GCP and Azure.
• Security & Compliance: Implement OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, mutual TLS, certificates, secrets, threat protection, quotas, and rate limiting in alignment with enterprise security requirements.
• Automation & Platform Delivery: Develop CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins to deliver repeatable API platform and configuration changes.
• Developer Experience: Manage API catalogs, developer portals, documentation, subscriptions, credentials, and onboarding workflows that enable secure consumer self‑service.
• Reliability & Observability: Monitor availability, traffic, latency, errors, capacity, and security events; build dashboards and alerts; troubleshoot incidents; and improve service‑level objectives across both clouds.
• Connectivity & Integration: Engineer secure connectivity to cloud, on‑premises, partner, and SaaS backends using private networking, load balancing, DNS, certificates, and identity services.
• Technical Leadership: Partner with application, security, network, platform, and architecture teams to define API contracts, review designs, document standards, mentor engineers, and drive platform adoption.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
• Core Experience: 5+ years of cloud, integration, or API engineering experience, including production ownership of enterprise API gateway or management platforms.
• Multi-Cloud Platforms: Hands‑on experience with both GCP and Azure, including Apigee and Azure API Management; experience translating common governance and security requirements into platform‑specific implementations.
• API Lifecycle: Experience designing APIs with OpenAPI, publishing products and documentation, managing consumer access, and supporting versioning, deprecation, analytics, and production operations.
• Engineering Automation: Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and automated delivery using Terraform or equivalent tooling, source control, testing, and CI/CD platforms.
• Modern Architecture: Experience with microservices, containers, Kubernetes, event‑driven integration, private connectivity, and hybrid or multi‑cloud architecture patterns.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• API Standards: Advanced knowledge of RESTful API design, OpenAPI Specification, contract‑first development, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Apigee: Strong knowledge of Apigee X proxy development, policies, shared flows, products, environments, analytics, developer portals, and hybrid connectivity patterns.
• Azure API Management: Strong knowledge of APIM gateways, policies, products, subscriptions, revisions, versions, named values, developer portal capabilities, diagnostics, and private network integration.
• Cloud & Identity: Working knowledge of GCP IAM and Microsoft Entra ID, service identities, secret and certificate management, and least‑privilege access patterns.
• Networking: Strong understanding of DNS, load balancing, VPC/VNet design, private endpoints, firewall controls, routing, TLS, and hybrid connectivity.
• Automation & Development: Ability to create maintainable automation and platform extensions using Terraform and scripting or programming languages such as Python, JavaScript/Node.js, Java, PowerShell, or Go.
• Operations & Communication: Strong troubleshooting, observability, incident response, documentation, mentoring, and cross‑functional communication skills in complex distributed environments.

LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS

None required.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

No Supervisory Responsibility

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

No

COMPANY INFORMATION

Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.

DISCLAIMER

This job description illustrates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any time

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

Where permitted by applicable law, successful applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to start date. COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment, subject to an approved accommodation, and proof of vaccination will be required on or prior to start date.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.