Position Description

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the world's largest independent IT and business consulting services firms. With 94,000 consultants and professionals globally, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services, and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results.

CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion, and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more about us at cgi.com.

Job Title: API Management Engineer

Experience: 5 to 8 yrs.

Job Location: Bangalore

Position ID: J0926-0534

Work Type: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full Time / Permanent

Qualification: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced API Management Engineer with 5–8 years of experience to design, implement, and support a highly available and secure enterprise API Management platform.

The role will focus on API Gateway, API policies, security, analytics, caching, messaging, and high availability architecture across EMEA and AMER regions. The candidate will work closely with architects, developers, DevOps, security, and application teams in an Agile delivery environment.

Core Technical Competencies

- API Management / API Gateway – Strong experience in enterprise API gateway implementation, configuration, routing, throttling, transformation, and lifecycle management.
- Control Plane – Experience with API policy administration, API configuration, monitoring, and analytics.

- Data Plane – Hands on experience managing distributed API Gateway environments across multiple regions.
- Azure API Management – Strong knowledge of Azure API Management services, policies, products, subscriptions, APIs, and backends.
- API Security – Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, TLS 1.3, authentication, authorization, and API security best practices.
- High Availability – Experience designing Active Active, stateless, multi region API architectures.

- Azure Cache – Experience with distributed caching, transient data, read only caching, and cache management.

- Azure Service Bus – Experience with queues, asynchronous messaging, retry mechanisms, and event driven integration.





- REST APIs – Strong understanding of RESTful API design, integration, versioning, and lifecycle management.
- API Monitoring & Analytics – Experience with API metrics, logging, monitoring, alerts, and performance analysis.

- DevOps / CI/CD – Experience automating API deployment and configuration using CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.

Key Responsibilities
- Design, configure, and maintain enterprise API Management and API Gateway platforms.
- Manage API Gateway deployments across EMEA and AMER using highly available Active Active architecture.
- Configure API policies for security, authentication, authorization, throttling, routing, transformation, and error handling.
- Implement secure API access using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, and TLS 1.3.
- Manage API lifecycle including onboarding, versioning, deployment, monitoring, and retirement.
- Configure and optimize Azure Cache for transient and read only data scenarios.
- Implement Azure Service Bus queues for asynchronous API and application communication.
- Configure API monitoring, analytics, logging, dashboards, and alerts.
- Troubleshoot API gateway, integration, performance, and connectivity issues.
- Implement automation for API configuration and deployments through Azure DevOps CI/CD.
- Ensure API solutions meet enterprise security, performance, scalability, and availability standards.
- Collaborate with Architects, Developers, Security, DevOps, QA, and business teams.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and continuous improvement initiatives.

Good to Have
- Experience with Azure API Management Premium / multi region deployments.
- Knowledge of Azure Application Gateway, Front Door, Key Vault, and Entra ID.
- Experience with Terraform / ARM / Bicep for Infrastructure as Code.
- Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with API testing tools such as Postman.
- Knowledge of OpenAPI / Swagger specifications.
- Experience with API security standards and OWASP API Security.
- Experience with observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Grafana, or equivalent.

Qualifications & Experience





- 5–8 years of hands-on experience in API Management / API Gateway technologies.
- Strong practical experience with Azure API Management, API Security, REST APIs, API Policies, Caching, Service Bus, Monitoring, and CI/CD.
- Experience designing secure, scalable, stateless, and highly available multi region API platforms.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Key Deliverables API Gateway Configuration | API Policies | API Security | Multi Region Deployment | API Lifecycle Management | API Analytics & Monitoring | Azure Cache Configuration | Service Bus Integration | CI/CD Automation | API Documentation | Security & Performance Validation

CGI is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, CGI is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Your future duties and responsibilities

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

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You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace recent opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

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