Senior API Platform Developer Engineer

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Job Title :

Senior API Platform Developer Engineer (Apigee Edge / Non Hybrid Automation & CI/CD)

Location:

NYC, NY / Alpharetta, GA (3 days a week Hybrid onsite)

Duration :

Long Term

Contract:

W2 / C2C

Job Description:

Role Summary:

Senior development engineer responsible for building and operating an automation-first API delivery platform on Apigee Edge (NonHybrid). Focus is on secure API proxy workloads engineering plus CI/CD modernization, self-service deployments, and governance at scale using API Management APIs, , Grunt, and scripting.

Apigee API workflow Engineering:

design and standardize API proxies development at scale, policies, shared flows, and reusable bundles.API Management APIs & Deployment Mechanisms (Core): automate API proxy Lifecycle using import/deploy/undeploy/redeploy, revision governance, promotion across environments, and rollback patterns via management APIs.

Parallel MultiEnvironment, Multi Plant Releases orchestrate controlled, concurrent deployments with safe sequencing and environment-specific configuration injection.

Lifecycle Governance:

multi-version management, drift detection, compliance validation (policy baselines + OpenAPI alignment), and lifecycle analytics.

Release Safety Controls:

one-click rollback, revision freeze/locks, guardrails to prevent unintended changes.

SelfService Enablement:

automated request/approval/deploy workflows and deployment failure analysis.

Automated Tollgates:

Implement automated CI/CD tollgates that validate API policy compliance, security controls, OpenAPI/spec integrity, dependency health, and configuration drift, producing auditable pass/fail evidence and a quantified release readiness score

Operational Visibility & Monitoring:

dashboards and reporting for usage, quota burn, capacity, spikes; real-time anomaly alerts

API Pipeline Modernization simplify and standardize onto Copilot-assisted Python pipelines; guardrail-driven deployments using Artifactory.

Core Skills:

Apigee Edge:

Design and build Apigee proxies, shared flows, and policies (including JavaScript/Java callouts), and troubleshoot runtime issues such as latency, quota enforcement, caching behavior, and routing

API Management APIs:

deployment automation, revision strategy, promotion/rollback, deployment state interrogation, auditability.

Automation Engineering:

, Grunt, Python/PowerShell scripting, Git-based release workflows.

CI/CD:

gated promotions, approvals, artifact versioning, automated rollback, compliance enforcement.

API Design:

OpenAPI/Swagger, contract validation, schema/version governance.

Security:

OAuth2/JWT, mTLS/cert lifecycle, HTTPS fundamentals.

Observability:

logs/metrics/analytics, alerting integrations; performance tuning mindset.

Foundations:

Linux CLI + networking basics (TCP/IP, DNS, LB, firewalls).

Nice to Have:

Apigee and/or Google Cloud certifications

Drift analyzer/compliance reporting experience

Elastic/Splunk/PrometheGrafana; PagerDuty/ServiceNow integrations

Performance/resiliency patterns; SQL/NoSQL; Kafka/Kinesis/Event Hub exposure

Work Model:

Agile delivery with partial overlaps with US time zones for reviews, incidents, and iterative releases.