Cloud Platform Engineer - Azure API, Officer

Overview

Design, build, automate, and operate secure enterprise-scale Azure API management platforms as part of the Cloud Platform Engineering team. Design, develop, secure, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade APIs on Microsoft Azure while partnering with application teams, architects, security teams, and DevOps engineers.

What you'll do

• Design, deploy, maintain, and automate enterprise API management platforms and infrastructure.
• Implement API versioning, lifecycle management, and governance standards.
• Troubleshoot and optimize API performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Develop and maintain API management policies for authentication and authorization, rate limiting and throttling, request/response transformations, caching, header manipulation, and IP filtering.
• Implement OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, and certificate-based authentication.
• Integrate APIs with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD).
• Perform API security assessments and vulnerability remediation.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security standards and governance requirements.
• Implement Zero Trust and least privileged access controls.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ARM Templates, Bicep, and Terraform.
• Automate API deployment, configuration, testing, and policy management.
• Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) for API platforms.
• Monitor API health and performance.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and automated reporting.
• Support production incidents and root cause analysis activities.
• Integrate APIs with Azure Entra ID, Azure Functions, Azure App Service, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Azure Storage, and Azure Key Vault.
• Document engineering decisions clearly and contribute to team knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Drive technical initiatives independently in a global, distributed engineering environment.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of API engineering / cloud development experience.
• Strong experience with API gateways and service mesh concepts.
• Expertise in REST APIs.
• Experience with enterprise-grade API management solutions, cloud-native development, security, automation, and integration patterns.
• Familiarity with API specifications using OpenAPI/Swagger standards.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ARM Templates, Bicep, and Terraform for CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Comfort working in a global, distributed engineering environment.
• Self-motivated, accountable, delivery-focused, and able to drive technical initiatives independently.
• Passion for automation, cloud engineering, operational excellence, secure infrastructure, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to document engineering decisions clearly and contribute to team knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with gRPC and event-driven APIs.
• Azure API Management experience.
• Experience with Azure Application Gateway and Ambassador Gateway.
• Azure certifications such as Azure Developer Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Azure Security Engineer Associate.
• Experience with financial services, regulated environments, change management, security audit processes, or large-scale enterprise cloud platforms.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.