Cloud Engineer-API -Global Industrial

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

.# **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.**PHYSICAL DEMANDS****LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS:** None required.**SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:** No Supervisory Responsibility**BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY:** NoCOMPANY 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 comprehensiveinventory of all duties, responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any timeor create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!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.