Azure API Engineer

Azure API Engineer

Burlington, MA

Contract

Description:

API Platform Engineering

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Azure API Management instances.
• Implement enterprise API gateway architecture for internal and external APIs.
• Publish and manage REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and microservice-based APIs.
• Configure API products, subscriptions, versioning, and revisions.
• Manage API lifecycle from onboarding to retirement.

API Security

• Implement OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, and certificate-based authentication.
• Configure API authentication using Microsoft Entra ID.
• Design rate-limiting, throttling, quotas, and access-control policies.
• Implement mTLS, IP filtering, WAF integration, and API threat protection.
• Ensure APIs comply with organizational security and compliance standards.

APIM Policy Management

• Develop and maintain APIM policies for:

o Authentication and Authorization

o Request/Response Transformation

o Header Manipulation

o Caching

o Rate Limiting

o Traffic Routing

o Error Handling

o Logging and Monitoring

Platform Governance

• Define API governance standards and best practices.
• Establish API design guidelines using OpenAPI specifications.
• Review APIs for security, performance, and compliance before publication.
• Implement policy-as-code and infrastructure-as-code practices.