{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"bf17856e6e91e2c1071ca3cd","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bf17856e6e91e2c1071ca3cd","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bf17856e6e91e2c1071ca3cd","title":"Platform Engineer (APIM/AI Gateway)","description":"Warren, NJ, United States (Hybrid)\nContract (5 months 6 days)\nPublished 15 days ago\nAzure API Management\nAI Gateway\nazure\nPrincipal Platform Engineer (APIM/AI Gateway)\nSeeking a Principal Platform Engineer (APIM/AI Gateway) to lead the architecture, design, engineering, and modernization of the Enterprise API and AI Platform. This strategic role will support the Enterprise API & AI Security Modernization Program, focused on transforming Azure API Management into a secure, scalable, and governed platform for Internal APIs, External APIs, AI Services, LLMs, Agents, and future AI workloads.\nThe Principal Platform Engineer will partner with Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Information Security, Networking, Enterprise Architecture, and Application teams to establish a target-state architecture that separates internal and external API traffic, enables Azure AI Gateway capabilities, strengthens API security controls, improves operational resiliency, and accelerates developer productivity through automation and self-service capabilities.\nThis role requires deep expertise in Azure, API Management, AI Gateway patterns, Terraform, platform security, infrastructure automation, observability, and modern platform engineering practices.\nResponsibilities\nPlatform Architecture & Strategy\nLead the design and implementation of Everest’s next-generation API and AI Platform, leveraging Azure API Management and Azure AI Gateway capabilities.\nDefine target-state architectures for Internal APIM, External APIM, AI Gateway, disaster recovery, security controls, and operational models.\nEstablish platform standards, reference architectures, engineering patterns, governance models, and technical roadmaps for APIs and AI services.\nDrive technical decisions related to traffic segregation, WAF integration, firewall architecture, identity patterns, and AI governance.\nAzure API Management & AI Gateway\nDesign and implement Azure API Management solutions supporting internal, external, partner, SaaS, and AI integrations.\nLead implementation of Azure AI Gateway capabilities, including:\nLLM access governance\nModel routing and failover\nToken and rate controls\nMCP and agent gateway patterns\nAI observability and reporting\nContent safety and guardrails\nAI security and DLP controls\nDefine and implement reusable APIM policy frameworks covering authentication, authorization, JWT validation, OAuth, mTLS, rate limiting, quotas, transformation, routing, logging, monitoring, and error handling.\nSecurity & Platform Hardening\nLead initiatives to strengthen API security posture through policy-based controls, network restrictions, managed identities, token validation, and least-privilege access patterns.\nPartner with Security and Network Engineering teams to reduce WAF exceptions and improve inspection and enforcement capabilities.\nImplement platform hardening controls, including Defender for Cloud recommendations, Key Vault integration, secret management, API security testing, identity governance, security monitoring, and alerting.\nPlatform Engineering & Automation\nLead Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) implementation using Terraform for APIM environments, networking, security controls, and platform services.\nEstablish CI/CD patterns using Azure DevOps and Git-based deployment workflows.\nDevelop automation frameworks that improve platform provisioning, policy deployment, governance enforcement, and operational efficiency.\nEnable self-service capabilities for API onboarding, governance, and lifecycle management.\nMigration & Modernization\nLead API inventory, classification, migration planning, and wave-based migration execution.\nDevelop migration playbooks, cutover procedures, rollback strategies, and operational runbooks.\nPartner with application teams to validate consumers, coordinate testing, and manage production migrations.\nObservability & Operational Excellence\nDesign comprehensive observability capabilities using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Defender for Cloud, and enterprise monitoring platforms.\nEstablish operational dashboards, governance scorecards, API health reporting, AI usage reporting, and platform KPIs.\nLead the creation of support models, operational procedures, DR runbooks, and platform documentation.\n\nThe pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $54.81/hour - $85.64/hour. Our offered benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.","company":"Capgemini","rawCompany":"capgemini","city":"Hackettstown","state":"NJ","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-03T19:34:58.073Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1244.00","title":"Network and Computer Systems Administrators","slug":"network-and-computer-systems-administrators"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Platform Engineer (APIM/AI Gateway)","description":"Warren, NJ, United States (Hybrid)\nContract (5 months 6 days)\nPublished 15 days ago\nAzure API Management\nAI Gateway\nazure\nPrincipal Platform Engineer (APIM/AI Gateway)\nSeeking a Principal Platform Engineer (APIM/AI Gateway) to lead the architecture, design, engineering, and modernization of the Enterprise API and AI Platform. This strategic role will support the Enterprise API & AI Security Modernization Program, focused on transforming Azure API Management into a secure, scalable, and governed platform for Internal APIs, External APIs, AI Services, LLMs, Agents, and future AI workloads.\nThe Principal Platform Engineer will partner with Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Information Security, Networking, Enterprise Architecture, and Application teams to establish a target-state architecture that separates internal and external API traffic, enables Azure AI Gateway capabilities, strengthens API security controls, improves operational resiliency, and accelerates developer productivity through automation and self-service capabilities.\nThis role requires deep expertise in Azure, API Management, AI Gateway patterns, Terraform, platform security, infrastructure automation, observability, and modern platform engineering practices.\nResponsibilities\nPlatform Architecture & Strategy\nLead the design and implementation of Everest’s next-generation API and AI Platform, leveraging Azure API Management and Azure AI Gateway capabilities.\nDefine target-state architectures for Internal APIM, External APIM, AI Gateway, disaster recovery, security controls, and operational models.\nEstablish platform standards, reference architectures, engineering patterns, governance models, and technical roadmaps for APIs and AI services.\nDrive technical decisions related to traffic segregation, WAF integration, firewall architecture, identity patterns, and AI governance.\nAzure API Management & AI Gateway\nDesign and implement Azure API Management solutions supporting internal, external, partner, SaaS, and AI integrations.\nLead implementation of Azure AI Gateway capabilities, including:\nLLM access governance\nModel routing and failover\nToken and rate controls\nMCP and agent gateway patterns\nAI observability and reporting\nContent safety and guardrails\nAI security and DLP controls\nDefine and implement reusable APIM policy frameworks covering authentication, authorization, JWT validation, OAuth, mTLS, rate limiting, quotas, transformation, routing, logging, monitoring, and error handling.\nSecurity & Platform Hardening\nLead initiatives to strengthen API security posture through policy-based controls, network restrictions, managed identities, token validation, and least-privilege access patterns.\nPartner with Security and Network Engineering teams to reduce WAF exceptions and improve inspection and enforcement capabilities.\nImplement platform hardening controls, including Defender for Cloud recommendations, Key Vault integration, secret management, API security testing, identity governance, security monitoring, and alerting.\nPlatform Engineering & Automation\nLead Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) implementation using Terraform for APIM environments, networking, security controls, and platform services.\nEstablish CI/CD patterns using Azure DevOps and Git-based deployment workflows.\nDevelop automation frameworks that improve platform provisioning, policy deployment, governance enforcement, and operational efficiency.\nEnable self-service capabilities for API onboarding, governance, and lifecycle management.\nMigration & Modernization\nLead API inventory, classification, migration planning, and wave-based migration execution.\nDevelop migration playbooks, cutover procedures, rollback strategies, and operational runbooks.\nPartner with application teams to validate consumers, coordinate testing, and manage production migrations.\nObservability & Operational Excellence\nDesign comprehensive observability capabilities using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Defender for Cloud, and enterprise monitoring platforms.\nEstablish operational dashboards, governance scorecards, API health reporting, AI usage reporting, and platform KPIs.\nLead the creation of support models, operational procedures, DR runbooks, and platform documentation.\n\nThe pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $54.81/hour - $85.64/hour. Our offered benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. 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