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Job Summary
Equinix is seeking an experienced API Gateway & Integration Platform Manager with 12+ years of experience to lead the strategy, engineering, operations, and modernization of the API and integration ecosystem. This role is responsible for driving API-first architecture, enabling secure and scalable integrations, and delivering highly available API management and integration platforms that power critical business capabilities across Equinix.
The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in API management platforms such as Apigee, enterprise integration technologies, cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. This role requires a combination of technical leadership, platform ownership, operational excellence, vendor management, and people leadership.
Responsibilities
Own the vision, roadmap, and strategy for Equinix's API Gateway and Integration Platforms
Drive enterprise-wide API management, integration, and platform engineering standards
Champion API-first and event-driven architecture practices across engineering teams
Align platform capabilities with business priorities through strong collaboration with business and technology leaders
Lead platform modernization initiatives supporting digital transformation objectives
Own and operate enterprise API Gateway platforms, including Apigee and related API management technologies
Establish standards for the complete API lifecycle, including design, security, publishing, versioning, monetization, and retirement
Ensure API platforms meet scalability, reliability, performance, and security requirements
Accelerate adoption of reusable APIs and self-service developer capabilities
Lead enterprise integration platforms such as Boomi, Workato etc., enabling application, cloud, SaaS, B2B, and partner integrations
Drive modernization from legacy middleware and point-to-point integrations to cloud-native integration platforms and event-driven architectures
Define integration standards leveraging REST APIs, event streaming, messaging, and asynchronous communication patterns
Build reusable integration services, connectors, and shared platform capabilities
Establish operational excellence through SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and SRE best practices
Lead production support, incident management, problem management, and platform reliability programs
Implement comprehensive observability, monitoring, alerting, automation, and self-healing capabilities
Define governance, security, compliance, and onboarding standards for APIs and integrations
Drive cloud-native platform engineering using Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps, and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
Ensure resilient disaster recovery, business continuity, and audit readiness, including SOX compliance
Build and develop high-performing teams of API, Integration, Boomi, DevOps, and Platform Engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement
Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
12+ years of experience in software engineering, integration engineering, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture
4+ years of leadership experience managing high-performing engineering teams
Deep experience operating enterprise API Gateway platforms such as: Apigee Kong NGINX API Gateway MuleSoft API Manager Azure API Management
Strong understanding of API security and governance frameworks
Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and Platform Engineering practices
Strong understanding of FinOps and cloud cost optimization
Experience managing vendor relationships, budgets, and platform roadmaps
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