API Architect

Project overview

For a major insurance player, we are looking for an API Management Architect to support the deployment of a Google Apigee Hybrid platform, in a GCP and Kubernetes / OpenShift environment.

The mission covers the design, implementation, security, and operation of the platform.

Responsibilities

Profile sought:

Required:

Desirable:

Soft skills:

• Design the target Apigee Hybrid architecture and its flows with the GCP ecosystem
• Define API exposure, security, versioning, and governance standards
• Implement proxies, policies, shared flows, and API Products
• Deploy Apigee Hybrid on OpenShift or Kubernetes
• Automate deployments (Terraform, Ansible, Tekton, ArgoCD)
• Integrate secret management with HashiCorp Vault
• Define security policies: OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, quotas, rate limiting
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and troubleshooting
• Support internal teams and write guides, standards, and technical templates
• 5 to 10 years of experience in API architecture or API Management
• Proven experience with Google Apigee Hybrid
• Good command of GCP and Kubernetes or OpenShift
• Mastery of REST, OAuth2, JWT, and mTLS
• DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) practices
• Apigee Hybrid deployed in production
• Tekton, ArgoCD, Ansible, HashiCorp Vault
• gRPC
• Experience in a highly secure and governed environment (insurance, banking)
• Ability to support technical teams
• Ease in presenting recommendations in architecture committees

Project details

Mission based in Le Mans, with majority on-site presence and occasional remote work.

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Le Mans, France, FR
• Rate: 63-75 EUR/h
• Languages: French