Highlights
Roles & Responsibilities The engineer will be responsible for building and operating a scalable API platform that enables secure integration between internal applications, cloud services, partners, customers, and third-party platforms while ensuring reliability, observability, and compliance. The engineer will be responsible for building and operating a scalable API platform that enables secure integration between internal applications, cloud services, partners, customers, and third-party platforms while ensuring reliability, observability, and compliance.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Aurora, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://q1tech.com/ |
Description
| Job Description: | ALL CAPS, NO SPACES B/T UNDERSCORES PTN_US_GBAMSREQID_ Candidate BeelineID i.e. PTN_US_9999999_SKIPJOHNSON0413 MSP Owner: Shilpa Bajpak Targeted Bill Rate- $75hr REQUIREMENT_CITY - Burlington, MA REQUIREMENT_ID-11009471 Role Name - Azure API Management (APIM) Engineer - Senior Engineer ROLE_DESCRIPTION - • Technical/Functional Skills Position Summary We are seeking an experienced Azure API Management (APIM) Engineer to design, implement, secure, and manage enterprise API platforms on Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Azure API Management (APIM), API security, API governance, cloud networking, and DevOps practices. The engineer will be responsible for building and operating a scalable API platform that enables secure integration between internal applications, cloud services, partners, customers, and third-party platforms while ensuring reliability, observability, and compliance. Azure API Management supports API lifecycle management, security, governance, monitoring, and developer enablement Experience Required 5 Years and above Roles & Responsibilities The engineer will be responsible for building and operating a scalable API platform that enables secure integration between internal applications, cloud services, partners, customers, and third-party platforms while ensuring reliability, observability, and compliance. Azure API Management supports API lifecycle management, security, governance, monitoring, and developer enablement. [learn.microsoft.com], [azure.microsoft.com] ________________________________________ Key Responsibilities 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. Monitoring & Observability • Integrate APIM with: o Azure Monitor o Log Analytics o Application Insights o Sentinel o Dynatrace (optional) • Build dashboards and alerts for: o API availability o Latency o Failure rates o Backend health o Security events Generic Managerial Skills • Strong stakeholder and customer communication. • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. • Ownership, accountability, and proactive attitude. • Team collaboration and mentoring capabilities. • ITIL-based service management and incident handling. Education Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent. Skills: Digital : Microsoft Azure Experience Required: 8-10 |
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About Company
Q1 consists of experienced and recognized experts providing the capability to respond to market demand in order to provide professional services for our clients including Enterprise software implementations, application integration and technical / functional support.
Q1 has steadily grown into a Quality IT services and solutions organization with the average experience of our team being over 10 years. We have continuously met or exceeded client expectations by delivering professional services and project implementations on time and under budget to help clients truly recognize return on investment.
