Azure API Engineer - SME

Remote • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 1 day ago
Contract W2
12 Months
25% Travel Required
Remote
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • API Management
  • Azure Front Door
  • Azure APIM
  • Azure WAF
  • Azure Networking
  • API Gateway
  • OAuth 2.0
  • JWT
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Azure DNS
  • SSL/TLS
  • Azure App Service
  • AKS
  • Private Endpoint
  • Azure Monitor
  • Terraform/Bicep

Summary

Azure Front Door & API Management (APIM) SME
Location: Remote with 25% travel
Employment Type: Contract

Job Summary

We are looking for experienced Azure Front Door and Azure API Management (APIM) SMEs to support the design, implementation, configuration, troubleshooting, and optimization of enterprise Azure application and API infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience securing and exposing web applications and APIs, managing traffic routing, and troubleshooting connectivity and performance issues across Azure environments.

Key Responsibilities / Skills

  • Strong hands-on experience with Azure Front Door and Azure API Management (APIM).
  • Configure and manage routing, load balancing, health probes, caching, custom domains, and SSL/TLS certificates.
  • Design and implement APIM gateways, APIs, products, subscriptions, policies, and versioning.
  • Implement API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, Microsoft Entra ID, certificates, and managed identities.
  • Experience with WAF policies, security rules, rate limiting, throttling, IP restrictions, and API protection.
  • Troubleshoot end-to-end application/API traffic across DNS → Front Door/WAF → APIM → backend services.
  • Experience integrating Front Door/APIM with Azure App Service, Functions, AKS, private endpoints, VNets, and other Azure services.
  • Strong understanding of Azure networking, DNS, monitoring/logging, security, performance optimization, and high availability.

Preferred: Experience with Azure Monitor/Application Insights, CI/CD or Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep), and enterprise-scale Azure environments.

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  • Dice Id: 10122703
  • Position Id: R-0929
  • Posted 1 day ago
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