Senior Azure API Management Developer / Specialist

Job Title: Azure API Management Developer / Specialist.

Location: Remote (US Time zone)

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Azure API Management / Integration with strong hands-on experience in Azure API Management, AKS, hybrid connectivity, API security, monitoring, and enterprise integration.

The ideal candidate should be able to design and troubleshoot end-to-end integrations between on-premises systems, Azure APIM, Azure Functions/AKS, and enterprise target systems such as SAP.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and configure Azure API Management (APIM).
• Develop APIM policies for rate limiting, caching, transformation, authentication, authorization, and threat protection.
• Integrate APIM with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, App Services, AKS/microservices, SAP, and on-premises systems.
• Design secure Azure-to-on-premises connectivity using VPN, ExpressRoute, VNet integration, Private Endpoints, NSGs, and routing.
• Deploy and integrate middleware/agents or containerized components on AKS.
• Implement API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, Entra ID/Azure AD, OpenID Connect, certificates, and mTLS.
• Manage secrets using Azure Key Vault and Managed Identity.
• Design high availability, load balancing, disaster recovery, and multi-region APIM solutions.
• Implement monitoring using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, APIM diagnostics, and KQL.
• Configure alerts and notifications for API failures, rate-limit violations, latency, and backend connectivity issues.
• Automate APIM and integration deployments using Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions and APIOps/IaC.
• Define and manage OpenAPI/Swagger schemas, API versions, products, subscriptions, and API governance.
• Troubleshoot production issues including 502/504 errors, connectivity, authentication, performance, and backend failures.
• Work closely with networking, security, DevOps, application, SAP, and infrastructure teams.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of hands-on Azure API Management.
• Azure Functions, Logic Apps, AKS/Kubernetes.
• REST, SOAP, OpenAPI/Swagger.
• OAuth 2.0, JWT, Entra ID, OpenID Connect, mTLS.
• Azure networking and hybrid connectivity.
• VPN / ExpressRoute / Private Endpoints.
• Azure Key Vault / Managed Identity.
• Azure Monitor / Application Insights / Log Analytics.
• Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions / APIOps.
• HA/DR, multi-region and load-balancing architecture.
• PowerShell or Azure CLI.
• Strong production troubleshooting and communication skills.

Preferred:

• SAP/ERP integration experience.
• Terraform/Bicep/ARM.
• Azure Application Gateway / Front Door / WAF.
• Service Bus / Event Grid.
• GraphQL.
• Enterprise architecture experience.