Cloud Platform Engineer - Azure API, Officer
State Street16 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, maintain, secure, and automate an enterprise Azure API management platform and related infrastructure.
- Develop and manage enterprise-grade APIs, including REST APIs, API versioning, lifecycle management, governance, policies, and integrations.
- Implement authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling, transformations, caching, filtering, and other API management policies.
- Apply OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, certificate-based authentication, Microsoft Entra ID integration, Zero Trust, and least-privilege controls.
- Build CI/CD pipelines and automate API deployment, configuration, testing, policy management, and infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
- Monitor API health, performance, reliability, and scalability; develop dashboards, alerts, and automated reporting.
- Support production incidents and root cause analysis while collaborating with application, architecture, security, and DevOps teams.
- Document engineering decisions, drive technical initiatives, and contribute to knowledge sharing in a global distributed engineering environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of API engineering or cloud development experience.
- Strong experience with enterprise API management solutions, API gateways, REST APIs, cloud-native development, security, automation, and integration patterns.
- Experience with API specifications using OpenAPI/Swagger and familiarity with service mesh concepts.
- Experience implementing OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, certificate-based authentication, API security assessments, and vulnerability remediation.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ARM Templates, Bicep, and Terraform for CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
- Experience integrating APIs with Azure Entra ID, Azure Functions, Azure App Service, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Azure Storage, and Azure Key Vault.
- Experience with Azure API Management, Azure Application Gateway, and Ambassador Gateway.
- Azure certifications such as Azure Developer Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Azure Security Engineer Associate are preferred.
- Experience with gRPC, event-driven APIs, financial services, regulated environments, change management, security audits, or large-scale enterprise cloud platforms is preferred.
- Ability to work independently, communicate clearly, document decisions, collaborate effectively, and focus on delivery and operational excellence.
Benefits
- Competitive and comprehensive benefits that may include medical care, insurance, and savings plans, varying by location.
- Flexible Work Program and work-life support resources.
- Development programs and educational support.
- Paid volunteer days, matching gift programs, and employee networks.
- Global, distributed engineering environment with inclusion, diversity, and social responsibility programs.
About State Street
State Street is a global custodian bank and asset manager serving institutional investors with investment servicing, fund accounting, trading/FX, data, and index/active strategies. Its products include State Street Global Advisors’ funds and ETFs, the Charles River Investment Management Solution, and the front-to-back State Street Alpha platform. Founded in 1792 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: STT) and operates across major markets worldwide.