Cloud Engineer-API Global Industrial

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 lifecyclefrom design and automated delivery through security observability optimization and production supportwhile 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: Bachelors 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/ 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: 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

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