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Job details:
Senior API Architect – Azure APIM to Alibaba API Gateway Migration
Location : Remote
Type : Contract (3-6 months)
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior API Architect / Integration Architect with strong experience in Azure API Management (APIM) and Alibaba Cloud API Gateway to lead a large-scale API migration initiative.
The consultant will be responsible for architecting, designing, and executing the migration of approximately 30+ APIs currently hosted on Azure APIM to Alibaba Cloud API Gateway. This role requires deep expertise in API management platforms, cloud integrations, security policies, and API lifecycle management.
The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in both Azure and Alibaba cloud ecosystems, with a strong background in API architecture, gateway policies, migration strategies, and enterprise integration patterns.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and lead the migration strategy from Azure API Management (APIM) to Alibaba Cloud API Gateway.
- Assess existing 30+ API proxies in Azure APIM and define the migration roadmap.
- Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance API gateway architecture in Alibaba Cloud.
- Configure and implement API policies, security controls, throttling, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
- Rebuild or migrate API proxies, routing logic, transformation policies, and integrations from Azure APIM to Alibaba API Gateway.
- Ensure API lifecycle management, versioning, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with application teams, cloud architects, and DevOps teams for seamless API migration.
- Implement best practices for API governance, security, and scalability.
- Provide documentation, migration playbooks, and knowledge transfer to internal teams.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in Azure API Management (APIM).
- Experience working with Alibaba Cloud API Gateway.
- Proven experience in API migration between cloud platforms.
- Expertise in API security, OAuth, JWT, API throttling, rate limiting, and policy management.
- Experience designing enterprise API architectures and integration patterns.
- Knowledge of REST APIs, microservices architecture, and API lifecycle management.
- Experience with cloud networking, load balancing, and security configurations.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with multi-cloud API management strategies.
- Knowledge of DevOps CI/CD pipelines for API deployment.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, and microservices architecture.
Experience
- 10+ years overall IT experience
- 5+ years in API Management / API Architecture
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