Job Title: Azure Front Door & API Management (APIM) SME
Location: Remote with 25% Travel
Employment Type: Contract
Workplace Mode: Remote
Job ID: DFZ-2026-929
About DataFactZ
DataFactZ is a data and analytics consulting company headquartered in Northville, Michigan, with delivery teams in the United States and India. For more than two decades, we've helped organizations turn their data into better decisions through data engineering, cloud data platforms on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, business intelligence and visualization, advanced analytics, and AI. Our consultants work on high-impact programs for fortune 500 clients, and we invest in their growth through certifications, hands-on learning, and meaningful work.
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Job Summary
We are seeking experienced Azure Front Door & API Management (APIM) SMEs with strong hands-on expertise in designing, implementing, securing, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise Azure application and API infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Configure Azure Front Door routing, load balancing, health probes, caching, custom domains, and SSL/TLS.
Design and manage Azure APIM gateways, APIs, products, subscriptions, policies, and versioning.
Implement API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, Microsoft Entra ID, certificates, and managed identities.
Configure WAF policies, rate limiting, throttling, IP restrictions, and API security controls.
Troubleshoot end-to-end traffic flows: DNS → Front Door/WAF → APIM → Backend.
Integrate Front Door/APIM with Azure App Service, Azure Functions, AKS, Private Endpoints, VNets, and other Azure services.
Monitor and optimize availability, performance, latency, security, and connectivity.
Support enterprise-scale Azure networking, DNS, monitoring, logging, and high-availability solutions.
Required Skills
Strong hands-on experience with Azure Front Door and Azure API Management.
Strong knowledge of Azure networking, DNS, WAF, security, and API management.
Experience with OAuth 2.0, JWT, Entra ID, Managed Identity, and certificates.
Troubleshooting experience across network, API gateway, application, and backend layers.
Experience with Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
Preferred Skills
Terraform / Bicep / Infrastructure as Code
Azure DevOps / CI/CD
AKS, Private Link/Private Endpoints, VNets
Enterprise-scale Azure architecture
Performance and security optimization