Cloud Engineer-API -Global Industrial

Genuine Parts Company•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
5+ years of cloud, integration, or API engineering experience, including production ownership of enterprise API gateway or management 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.
Experience designing APIs with OpenAPI, publishing products and documentation, managing consumer access, and supporting versioning, deprecation, analytics, and production operations.
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and automated delivery using Terraform or equivalent tooling, source control, testing, and CI/CD platforms.
Experience with microservices, containers, Kubernetes, event-driven integration, private connectivity, and hybrid or multi-cloud architecture patterns.
Advanced knowledge of RESTful API design, OpenAPI Specification, contract-first development, versioning, and backward compatibility.
Strong knowledge of Apigee X proxy development, policies, shared flows, products, environments, analytics, developer portals, and hybrid connectivity patterns.
Strong knowledge of APIM gateways, policies, products, subscriptions, revisions, versions, named values, developer portal capabilities, diagnostics, and private network integration.
Working knowledge of GCP IAM and Microsoft Entra ID, service identities, secret and certificate management, and least-privilege access patterns.
Strong understanding of DNS, load balancing, VPC/VNet design, private endpoints, firewall controls, routing, TLS, and hybrid connectivity.
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.
Strong troubleshooting, observability, incident response, documentation, mentoring, and cross-functional communication skills in complex distributed environments.

Responsibilities

Design, build, configure, and support API proxies, products, policies, gateways, and reusable components in Apigee and Azure API Management.
Establish consistent RESTful design standards, versioning practices, lifecycle controls, naming conventions, and deployment patterns across GCP and Azure.
Implement OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, mutual TLS, certificates, secrets, threat protection, quotas, and rate limiting in alignment with enterprise security requirements.
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.
Manage API catalogs, developer portals, documentation, subscriptions, credentials, and onboarding workflows that enable secure consumer self-service.
Monitor availability, traffic, latency, errors, capacity, and security events; build dashboards and alerts; troubleshoot incidents; and improve service-level objectives across both clouds.
Engineer secure connectivity to cloud, on-premises, partner, and SaaS backends using private networking, load balancing, DNS, certificates, and identity services.
Partner with application, security, network, platform, and architecture teams to define API contracts, review designs, document standards, mentor engineers, and drive platform adoption.