Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Job summary

Insight is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (L4) to be the technical authority on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) API management strategy and implementation within their Professional Services Practice. This role involves owning customer-facing technical workstreams, designing enterprise-grade Apigee architectures, and mentoring junior engineers. The successful candidate will establish robust, secure, and automated API developer platforms to accelerate clients' modernization journeys.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5–7 years in IT consulting or cloud engineering roles.
• At least 3 years dedicated to enterprise API management.
• Advanced hands-on experience designing and operating Apigee X or Apigee Hybrid environments.
• Experience includes custom policy formulation, shared flows, and reusable security fragment architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to construct secure, production-grade CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to manage state files, environments, and multi-team drift containment within Terraform.
• Solid exposure to cloud inventory tools (e.g., CloudPhysics) and pattern identification (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor).
• Practical experience orchestrating multi-wave application cutovers.
• Must hold a minimum of two active Google Cloud certifications, including the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud Network Engineer.
• A dedicated Apigee certification or commitment to achieve it within 90 days is highly preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal consulting communication skills.
• Proven experience defending technical decisions and designs to enterprise client engineers.
• Direct experience deploying and custom-theming Drupal-based or Apigee-native Developer Portals (Preferred).
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native deployment layers such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or Cloud Run to serve as backend targets for API routing (Preferred).
• Experience utilizing IaC governance orchestration tooling such as Spacelift, Atlantis, or Terraform Enterprise (Preferred).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the definitive technical authority on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) API management strategy and implementation.
• Own customer-facing technical workstreams end-to-end, designing enterprise-grade Apigee architectures.
• Mentor junior engineers to elevate collective delivery quality.
• Establish robust, secure, and automated API developer platforms to accelerate enterprise clients' modernization journeys.
• Lead the end-to-end technical execution of Apigee-centric workstreams with minimal oversight.
• Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for customer technical leads.
• Design and implement comprehensive API proxy lifecycles, environment group routing structures, developer portals, and promotion pipelines across environments (Dev, Staging, Production).
• Build and deploy advanced API security structures, implementing Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), bot detection, mutual TLS (mTLS), OAuth2/OIDC token governance, and direct integrations with enterprise IDPs (e.g., Okta, Azure AD).
• Independently build CI/CD automation pipelines for API proxy deployment using Maven or Python Apigee plugins integrated with tools like Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Map policy equivalence, inventory legacy proxy states, and execute migration waves to transition customers off legacy API gateways (such as MuleSoft or Kong) onto Apigee.
• Author, maintain, and review production-grade Terraform modules to provision Apigee X landing zones, Shared VPC networks, and Private Service Connect (PSC) configurations.
• Provide active technical mentorship to L2 and L3 engineers.
• Perform thorough code reviews on proxies, shared flows, and deployment scripts to ensure absolute correctness.
• Proactively identify technical delivery risks and dependencies.
• Produce defensible workstream-level estimates.
• Communicate technical constraints clearly to both internal and client project managers.

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