- Company Name
- Avanciers Inc.
- Job Title
- Technical lead – Apigee
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Technical Lead – Apigee
**Role Summary**
Lead the design, deployment, and operation of Apigee Hybrid environments in a Fortune 500 context. Provide hands‑on engineering leadership, drive platform stability, and collaborate across infrastructure, security, and development teams to ensure high‑quality, secure API management.
**Expectations**
- 6+ month contract role, onsite.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for Apigee Hybrid.
- Own end‑to‑end operational readiness, including installation, upgrades, scaling, automation, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Resolve production incidents, perform root‑cause analysis, and implement reliability improvements.
- Mentor and train engineering staff and walkthrough cross‑team knowledge transfer.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Design, deploy, and maintain Apigee Hybrid runtime, ingress, routing, shared flows, and platform components.
- Manage GKE/Kubernetes infrastructure for Apigee: node pools, RBAC, workload identity, certificates, and cluster networking.
- Coordinate with cloud, security, and networking teams to secure traffic via DNS, firewalls, load balancers, and routing controls.
- Enhance CI/CD workflows for API proxies, shared flows, bundles, and configuration using GitOps, Terraform, Cloud Build, and related tools.
- Establish platform standards, reusable assets, and operational documentation.
- Partner with architects and product teams to enforce secure API design, governance, and enterprise architecture alignment.
**Required Skills**
- 5+ years in Solutions Engineering, Platform Engineering, or SRE.
- Proven experience with Apigee Hybrid in production.
- Deep expertise in GCP, GKE, and Kubernetes (networking, workloads, security, scaling).
- Strong knowledge of enterprise networking: DNS, firewalls, VPC, load balancers, routing, mTLS.
- CI/CD, GitOps, Terraform, Cloud Build, or similar tooling proficiency.
- API security fundamentals: OAuth, JWT, mTLS, quotas, rate limiting, governance.
- Excellent communication, mentorship, and cross‑team leadership.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline (preferred).
- Certifications in GCP, Kubernetes, or Apigee are desirable.