Job Description:
Deep experience across Apigee, GCP, GKE/GDC/Kubernetes, cloud and on-prem networking, and Apigee Hybrid operations.
Key Responsibilities:
• Act as the primary technical lead for Apigee Hybrid, providing hands-on engineering leadership across runtime, ingress, routing, shared flows, and platform components.
• Lead operational readiness activities and cross training for our TD team including installation, upgrading, scaling, automation, monitoring, and ongoing platform maintenance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve go-live production issues, performing root cause analyses and driving long-term reliability improvements.
• Consult with infrastructure hosting team and vendor partners with GKE infrastructure supporting the Apigee runtime: node pools, RBAC, workload identity, certificates, and cluster networking.
• Partner with cloud, security, and networking teams to maintain network flows and controls for Apigee, including DNS, firewalls, load balancers, and north/south traffic routing.
• Support API Management DevOps team improve our existing CI/CD processes for API proxies, shared flows, bundles, and configuration deployments using GitOps automation.
• Establish and maintain platform standards, onboarding patterns, reusable assets, and operational documentation for development teams.
• Collaborate with architects and product teams to ensure secure API design, adherence to governance controls, and alignment with enterprise architecture.
Requirements
Required Skills & Experience:
• 5+ years in Solutions Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, or similar roles.
• Hands-on experience with Apigee Hybrid in production environments.
• Strong expertise with GCP, GKE, and Kubernetes (networking, workloads, security, scaling).
• Solid understanding of enterprise networking concepts: DNS, firewalls, VPC design, load balancers, routing, mTLS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Terraform, Cloud Build, or similar tooling.
• Strong grasp of API security (OAuth, JWT, mTLS), quotas, rate limiting, and operational governance.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to guide engineers and work across diverse technology teams.
Nice to Have:
• Experience with Apigee X or migration from Hybrid.
• Exposure to service mesh technologies (Istio/Anthos).
• Familiarity with alternative gateways for comparative analysis.
