Technical lead – Apigee

Job Description

<p><b>Job Description:</b><br></p>
Deep experience across Apigee, GCP, GKE/GDC/Kubernetes, cloud and on-prem networking, and Apigee Hybrid operations.<br>
<br><p><b>Key Responsibilities:</b><br></p><ul><li>Act as the primary technical lead for Apigee Hybrid, providing hands-on engineering leadership across runtime, ingress, routing, shared flows, and platform components.<br></li><li>Lead operational readiness activities and cross training for our TD team including installation, upgrading, scaling, automation, monitoring, and ongoing platform maintenance.<br></li><li>Troubleshoot and resolve go-live production issues, performing root cause analyses and driving long-term reliability improvements.<br></li><li>Consult with infrastructure hosting team and vendor partners with GKE infrastructure supporting the Apigee runtime: node pools, RBAC, workload identity, certificates, and cluster networking.<br></li><li>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.<br></li><li>Support API Management DevOps team improve our existing CI/CD processes for API proxies, shared flows, bundles, and configuration deployments using GitOps automation.<br></li><li>Establish and maintain platform standards, onboarding patterns, reusable assets, and operational documentation for development teams.<br></li><li>Collaborate with architects and product teams to ensure secure API design, adherence to governance controls, and alignment with enterprise architecture.<br></li></ul>
<br><br><h3>Requirements</h3><p><b>Required Skills & Experience:</b><br></p><ul><li>5+ years in Solutions Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, or similar roles.<br></li><li>Hands-on experience with Apigee Hybrid in production environments.<br></li><li>Strong expertise with GCP, GKE, and Kubernetes (networking, workloads, security, scaling).<br></li><li>Solid understanding of enterprise networking concepts: DNS, firewalls, VPC design, load balancers, routing, mTLS.<br></li><li>Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Terraform, Cloud Build, or similar tooling.<br></li><li>Strong grasp of API security (OAuth, JWT, mTLS), quotas, rate limiting, and operational governance.<br></li><li>Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to guide engineers and work across diverse technology teams.<br></li></ul><p><b>Nice to Have:</b><br></p><ul><li>Experience with Apigee X or migration from Hybrid.<br></li><li>Exposure to service mesh technologies (Istio/Anthos).<br></li><li>Familiarity with alternative gateways for comparative analysis.<br></li></ul>
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