Senior Apigee Hybrid DevOps / Team Lead (Apigee)

Job Title : Senior Apigee Hybrid DevOps / Team Lead (Apigee)

Location State : Rajasthan

Location City : Jaipur

Experience Required : 4 to 6 Year(s)

Shift: Day Shift

Work Mode: Onsite

Position Type: C2H

Openings: 1

Company Name: VARITE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

About The Client: A premier Google Cloud partner delivering cutting-edge cloud, data, and AI solutions to global enterprises. With a strong focus on innovation and customer success, Niveus empowers organizations to transform their businesses through cloud-native technologies and engineering excellence.

About The Job:

As a Senior Apigee Hybrid DevOps Engineer, you will serve as the technical lead for the engineering team, guiding daily execution, delivery, and operational excellence. You will own the execution of platform upgrades, enforce configuration best practices, manage distributed database health, and mentor intermediate engineers to ensure seamless operations for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Bare Metal and Apigee Hybrid.

Essential Job Functions:

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead the DevOps team in daily tasks, assign deliverables, unblock technical hurdles,
• and conduct rigorous configuration reviews.
• Apply standard infrastructure design patterns. Design Playbooks and reusable
• frameworks to be consumed by the wider team.
• Act as the escalation point for complex technical issues related to Apigee Hybrid
• platform

Apigee Hybrid Architecture & Governance

• Design and govern the secure integration patterns linking the Apigee Hybrid runtime
• plane and GDC Bare Metal infrastructure across northbound, control plane and
• southbound connections
• Establish naming conventions, govern all configuration files to ensure best practices are
• applied.
• Design and govern the implementation of an highly available, multi-regional and failover
• GDC Cluster, and Apigee Hybrid components, along with proper network isolation and
• data storage patterns
• Ensure efficient Upgrade/ Backup/ Restore designs to ensure minimal RPO and
• maximum compliance.

Advanced Configuration & Security

• Direct the team in tuning system thresholds across Kubernetes HPA, JVM
• configurations.
• Ensure that sensitive data is either encrypted or stored securely
• Familiarity with data residency
• Gain full visibility into low-level Apigee Hybrid configurations (e.g., memory buffers,
• seccomp profiles) and suggest hardening and tuning to achieve peak security, performance, and operational excellence

Platform Operations & Analytics

• Orchestrate and safely execute major version upgrades, cluster migrations, and
• automated patch rollouts across GDC and Apigee Hybrid stacks.
• Oversee the performance of Apache Cassandra inside Kubernetes, managing
• multi-region replication data consistency patterns, compacting strategies, and disaster
• recovery execution.
• Implement enterprise security patterns and enforce unified observability metrics through
• Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP Cloud Operations.
• Orchestrate the team's response to high-priority platform incidents, leading fast
• debugging efforts for complex hybrid issues

Qualifications:

Must-Have Skills

• Platform Mastery: Apigee (X, Hybrid), GCP Cloud
• Infrastructure: VM/Compute Engine, Kubernetes.
• Tools & Automation: Terraform, Helm, Shell Scripting, Linux, YAML, Git.
• Observability: Google Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana.
• On-Premise Hybrid Platforms: GDC on BareMetal, GDC on VMware.

Good-to-Have Skills

These represent highly advanced networking configurations, specialized hybrid-cloud

deployments, and specific service mesh architectures.

• Advanced Networking: MetalLB, BGP, DNS, MTLS, TLS, GLB, VPN, Interconnect.
• Security & Mesh: Secret Management, Service Mesh (Istio).
• Scripting languages: Python
• Platform Mastery: Apigee (Edge), AWS Cloud.

Leadership Competencies

• Experience leading small teams (3–5 devops)
• Strong stakeholder management skills—ability to explain technical details to
• non-technical business owners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps certification (highly preferred).
• Experience with VMWare

How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume using the apply online button on this job post.

About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.

Equal Opportunity Employer: VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Exp Req - Referral Bonus

0 - 2 Yrs. - INR 5,000

2 - 6 Yrs. - INR 7,500

6 + Yrs. - INR 10,000