Senior APIM Architect
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated3 months ago
Remote, Mexico or Guadalajara, MexicoSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Azure API Management architectures, advanced policies, multi-region deployments, private connectivity, developer portals, and integration patterns.
- Develop and govern API management strategies across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including vendor-agnostic standards, routing, orchestration, disaster recovery, and failover.
- Design identity and security integrations using Okta, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, certificates, API keys, and Akamai WAF.
- Integrate Azure APIM with Azure Integration Services, monitoring platforms, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Evaluate and guide adoption of AWS API Gateway, GCP API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft, Kong, Gravitee, and other API management platforms.
- Define API governance, security, lifecycle, documentation, performance, compliance, and multi-environment promotion standards.
- Oversee Azure APIM operations, scaling, capacity planning, cost optimization, monitoring, SLA performance, backup, and business continuity.
- Create GitOps workflows, automated deployments, security scans, policy validation, rollback procedures, and Terraform-based infrastructure.
- Partner with architects, developers, security teams, compliance teams, cloud providers, and business stakeholders on multi-cloud initiatives.
- Mentor developers, lead proofs of concept, research emerging cloud and API management capabilities, and drive platform migrations or consolidation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; master's degree preferred.
- 8+ years of experience in software development, cloud integration, or enterprise architecture roles.
- 5+ years of hands-on Azure API Management experience in production environments.
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale API solutions across at least two of Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Expert knowledge of Azure APIM policies, products, subscriptions, versions, revisions, backends, named values, networking, private endpoints, VPN, ExpressRoute, and developer portals.
- Working knowledge of AWS API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, core compute and storage services, and GCP services.
- Experience with cross-cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, API gateways, Okta authentication and authorization, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT, and claims-based authorization.
- Experience with Akamai WAF or similar web application firewalls and secrets management using Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and GCP Secret Manager.
- Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Terraform, ARM templates, Bicep, CloudFormation, Deployment Manager, GitOps, and automated deployment strategies.
- Extensive experience with Azure Integration Services and Azure monitoring and observability tools.
- Knowledge of .NET, Python, JavaScript, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, GKE, YAML, JSON, RESTful architectures, microservices, cloud networking, and load balancing.
- Strong analytical, communication, leadership, stakeholder-management, and architectural decision-making skills.
- Preferred qualifications include Azure and AWS certifications, Azure APIM self-hosted gateway experience, API monetization, GraphQL, gRPC, FinOps, API migrations, and commercial real estate or professional services experience.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement based in Jalisco, Mexico.
- JLL is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
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About Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
JLL is a global commercial real estate services and investment management firm serving occupiers and investors. It provides property and facilities management, leasing and tenant representation, capital markets, project and development services, workplace strategy, sustainability, and real estate technology and analytics, with a fee- and commission-based advisory, outsourcing, transaction, and management-fee model. Headquartered in Chicago, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (JLL).