Senior API Gateway & Integration Platform Manager

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
• Experience with: Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk
• Strong experience with enterprise integration platforms (like Boomi, Workato, etc.) and integration architecture
• Proven experience building and operating large-scale, highly available production platforms
• Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Experience implementing Kubernetes-based platforms
• 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

Skills

AWS, Apigee, Argo CD, Azure, Boomi, GCP, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Kong, Kubernetes, MuleSoft, Terraform, nginx