We are hiring a Solutions Engineer to serve as the technical lead for the Apigee Hybrid platform responsible for guiding our team of engineers and ensuring the secure reliable and scalable operation of our enterprise API management ecosystem.
Location: Toronto ON - Canada (Hybrid)
Type: Contract T4.
This role requires deep experience across Apigee GCP GKE/GDC/Kubernetes cloud and on-prem networking and Apigee Hybrid operations.
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 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 (lstio/Anthos).
- Familiarity with alternative gateways for comparative analysis.
APIGEE API GCP Google Cloud Platform API Management.