API Gateway Engineer – Layer7 / Apigee
Publicis Sapient · Posted Oct 21
Enterprise AI platforms, digital business transformation, software engineering, and strategy consulting services
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About the role
The Enterprise Engineering API Capability team supports and modernizes the organization's API ecosystem. It focuses on API management, API gateways, and integration technologies including Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway and Google Apigee. This role works with engineering, architecture, and delivery teams on API migration, remediation, governance, security, and platform operations.
What you will do
- Support and enhance the enterprise API ecosystem across multiple platforms, including Broadcom Layer7 and Apigee.
- Lead and contribute to migration initiatives aimed at transitioning APIs from legacy Layer7 implementations to modern API management platforms and architectures.
- Perform API legacy remediation activities, including redesign, refactoring, standardization, and modernization of existing services.
- Collaborate with application, integration, security, architecture, and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reusable API solutions.
- Provide advanced technical analysis and troubleshooting support for critical API platform incidents and complex production issues.
- Assist development teams with API design, best practices, governance standards, and onboarding to the enterprise API ecosystem.
- Support automation, CI/CD integration, infrastructure-as-code, and operational excellence initiatives across API platforms.
- Contribute to API platform governance, security, observability, and lifecycle management practices.
- Identify opportunities for platform optimization, technical debt reduction, and continuous improvement across the API landscape.
- Participate in a global support model and collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong experience with enterprise API management platforms, including Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway and/or Google Apigee.
- Experience designing, developing, securing, and supporting RESTful APIs and microservice-based architectures.
- Proven experience with API migration, modernization, and legacy remediation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of API security standards, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, TLS, and certificate management.
- Experience with API governance, lifecycle management, and developer enablement practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, containerized environments, and cloud-native deployment models.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Expert Knowledge in Cloud technologies, e.g.. AWS, Azure
- Exposure to Networks, Databases, Security, Application & Infrastructure design
- Proven track record of supporting Login solutions and linked technologies
- Exposure to Monitoring Tools and Solutions to support Security Infrastructure (E.g. CA APM, AppDynamics, ITCAM, New Relic)
- Development experience on one of the languages ( JAVA, Perl, C++, .NET , PHP, JavaScript)
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Publicis Sapient
Publicis Sapient is a digital business transformation company that helps organizations create and sustain competitive advantage through a blend of strategy, consulting, experience design, and engineering. Operating as a subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, the firm leverages proprietary enterprise AI platforms like Sapient Bodhi, Slingshot, and Sustain to modernize legacy systems and accelerate digital capabilities. With over 30 years of history, it partners with global enterprises across diverse industries to reinvent how they operate and serve their customers.
- Industry
- Digital Transformation
- Company size
- 20000+ employees
- Founded
- 1990
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $3.7B raised
- 2015-02-01Acquisition$3.7B
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Nathalie Le Bos
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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