Technical lead – Apigee

Job Description:

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.
  

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.