Cloud Engineer-API -Global Industrial

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., * Multi-Cloud API Engineering: Design, build, configure, and support API proxies, products, policies, gateways, and reusable components in Apigee and Azure API Management.

• API Architecture & Governance: Establish consistent RESTful design standards, versioning practices, lifecycle controls, naming conventions, and deployment patterns across GCP and Azure.
• Security & Compliance: Implement OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, mutual TLS, certificates, secrets, threat protection, quotas, and rate limiting in alignment with enterprise security requirements.
• Automation & Platform Delivery: 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.
• Developer Experience: Manage API catalogs, developer portals, documentation, subscriptions, credentials, and onboarding workflows that enable secure consumer self-service.
• Reliability & Observability: Monitor availability, traffic, latency, errors, capacity, and security events; build dashboards and alerts; troubleshoot incidents; and improve service-level objectives across both clouds.
• Connectivity & Integration: Engineer secure connectivity to cloud, on-premises, partner, and SaaS backends using private networking, load balancing, DNS, certificates, and identity services.
• Technical Leadership: Partner with application, security, network, platform, and architecture teams to define API contracts, review designs, document standards, mentor engineers, and drive platform adoption.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
• Core Experience: 5+ years of cloud, integration, or API engineering experience, including production ownership of enterprise API gateway or management platforms.
• Multi-Cloud 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.
• API Lifecycle: Experience designing APIs with OpenAPI, publishing products and documentation, managing consumer access, and supporting versioning, deprecation, analytics, and production operations.
• Engineering Automation: Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and automated delivery using Terraform or equivalent tooling, source control, testing, and CI/CD platforms.
• Modern Architecture: Experience with microservices, containers, Kubernetes, event-driven integration, private connectivity, and hybrid or multi-cloud architecture patterns.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• API Standards: Advanced knowledge of RESTful API design, OpenAPI Specification, contract-first development, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Apigee: Strong knowledge of Apigee X proxy development, policies, shared flows, products, environments, analytics, developer portals, and hybrid connectivity patterns.
• Azure API Management: Strong knowledge of APIM gateways, policies, products, subscriptions, revisions, versions, named values, developer portal capabilities, diagnostics, and private network integration.
• Cloud & Identity: Working knowledge of GCP IAM and Microsoft Entra ID, service identities, secret and certificate management, and least-privilege access patterns.
• Networking: Strong understanding of DNS, load balancing, VPC/VNet design, private endpoints, firewall controls, routing, TLS, and hybrid connectivity.
• Automation & Development: 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.
• Operations & Communication: Strong troubleshooting, observability, incident response, documentation, mentoring, and cross-functional communication skills in complex distributed environments., Application Programming Interface (API), Applications Security, Automation, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Contract Requirements, Contract Review, Cross-Functional, DNS (Domain Name System), DevOps, Digital Certificates, Doctor of Nursing Science (DNS), Documentation, Documentation Standards, Engineering, Enterprise Protection, Firewalls, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), Genetics, GitHub, Identify Issues, Incident Response, Information Technology & Information Systems, Java, JavaScript, Jenkins, Load Balancing, Machine Tool, Mentoring, Microservices, Microsoft Product Family, Microsoft Windows Azure, Military, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, Network Integration, Node.js, OAuth, Onboarding, Online Publications, OpenID, Operational Audit, Operational Communications, Product Documentation, Production Support, Python Programming/Scripting Language, REST (Representational State Transfer)

Reporting Dashboards, SSL-TLS (Secure Socket Layer - Transport Layer Security), Scripting (Scripting Languages), Security Attacks, Security Infrastructure, Software Engineering, Software as a Service (SaaS), Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), System Integration (SI), Systems Administration/Management, Technical Leadership, Testing, Traffic Shaping, Web Analytics, Windows PowerShell

Genuine Parts Company Today Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is a service organization engaged in the distribution of: * Automotive Replacement Parts * Industrial Replacement Parts and Materials * Business Products The Company has a distribution network of over 3,100 operations located throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Southeast Asia. In addition, the Company expanded its global network into Europe with its 2017 acquisition of Alliance Automotive Group.

Company Size: 1,500 to 1,999 employees

Industry: Automotive and Parts Mfg