APIGEE Architect

Job Description

Must have

10+ years of extensive experience in delivering, designing, and architecting strategic IT solutions within Hybrid / Public Cloud (Google), Networking, security, and on-premises infrastructure space in line with business goals and strategy.

Design, architect, and implement Apigee (Apigee X, Apigee Hybrid) infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in alignment with industry best practices and security standards.

Architecting, Designing, & Implement, Configure, and manage networking components such as VPCs, subnets, private service connect, NEG’s, Hybrid NEG’s , Serverless NEG’s, firewall rules, and load balancers to support Apigee traffic management and security policies.

Must be excellent in IaC specially in Terraform.

Familiarity with programming languages such as Java, Python or Node.js for Api Development.

• Design, Architect & Implement API security to ensure a robust and secure consumption of sensitive data. Must be comfortable with custom analytics, throttling, caching, logging, monetization, request, and response modifications etc. using Apigee.
• API portal for consumption of API’s. and Support in integrating applications and services, Support API developers in understanding API management feature.
• in SDLC, CI/CD and must be self-sufficient in making configuration changes to Apigee via CI/CD and not via Apigee UI.
• Perform regular health checks and monitor performance of the Apigee environment.
• Build and create shared flows for Error Handling, Security, and other scenarios.
• Write Automation Test cases.

Qualifications

Required:

• Experience with APIGEE X and Apigee Hybrid.
• Knowledge and experience in developing software using agile methodologies & must be excellent in CI/CD.

Strategic Planning and Direction.

Proven Experience architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global cloud-

based systems, and experience in network infrastructure, security, data, or

application development.

Proven Experience as an Apigee Infrastructure Solution Architect or similar role with a deep understanding of API Management concepts and best practices.

• Strong knowledge of Apigee component architecture and implementation configurations
• Experience with design and development of REST API platform using APIGEE/APIM, converting web services from SOAP to REST or vice-versa.
• Experience in API layer like security, custom analytics, throttling, caching, logging, monetization, request, and response modifications etc. using APIGEE.
• Experience with High availability, load balancing and failover configurations with Apigee
• Knowledge of JavaScript for writing APIGEE mashup APIs
• Knowledge of health checks and monitoring procedures for Apigee components & APIs
• Understanding of TLS, certificates, keystore

API Analytics - generation of custom reports and integration with external tools like Splunk

Experience with API security norms and conversant in common Internet technologies and protocols viz HTTPs, SSL, OAuth, REST, JSON, XML etc.

Ability to communicate effectively via multiple channels (verbal, written, etc.) with technical and non-technical staff.