Senior Azure Cloud Engineer/ API Engineer

Smartedge’s Client is looking for an individual to help with their Senior Azure Cloud Engineer/ API Engineer @ 100 % Remote (Ireland/ UK)

Key area:

Senior Azure Cloud Engineer/ API Engineer We're looking for a dedicated professional who is passionate about cloud technology, API enablement, and product management.

The candidate must be eager to lead the way in designing top-notch Azure solutions.

Working for the Enterprise Data Platform API Engineering team, our role is to deliver value from our data. We enhance and optimise business processes by exposing consistent and reliable data to internal and external customers. This leads to better outcomes and opportunities for monetization.

You will be responsible for managing and maintaining Business Solutions: Oversee the engineering, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement of API Platform and cloud-based business solutions hosted on Microsoft Azure. Multifaceted role for technical Strategy; for Architectural Design; for Implementation; Scalability, Stability, and Performance; Azure Resource Management; Security and Compliance.

You will Work closely with product management, development, and operations teams to deliver projects and solutions that meet business needs.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and operationalise a lean, scalable, cost effective, secure (zero trust) API Platform on Azure.

• Design and build API Product, microservices, and integration flows API Management.

• Strong understanding of API-led & Event Driven Design approaches and trade offs

• Design and Implement API specifications OpenAPI

• Apply integration design patterns (e.g., pub-sub, request-reply, scatter-gather) where appropriate.

• Mentor and support junior developers and contribute to code reviews and best practice enforcement.

• Liaise and understand functional teams to deliver products that delight.

• Collaborate with architects, and DevOps teams to define and implement scalable architectures.

• Develop automated tests and ensure code coverage and quality standards.

• Package and deploy service via CI/CD pipelines.

• Leverage Monitoring and Application Insights to support operations.

• Troubleshoot issues, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.

• Create and maintain technical documentation.

Preferred education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 10+ years of software development experience, Cloud Engineering with at least 3 years of hands-on Azure development.

• Strong knowledge of Azure API Management Platform

• Proficiency in OpenAPI, Node/Java/C#,

• strong culture of security and quality by design

• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, Streaming, Kafka JMS, and message queues.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and deployment automation.

• Understanding of security protocols (OAuth 2.0, JWT, TLS) and API gateway policies.

If this sounds like a role you would be interested in or if you know someone in this field.

Connect with me or email me at nagamani.y@smartedgesolutions.co.uk

Alternatively, you can call me on Tel: +44(0)203 500 2108.