Why does Azure Funtion http request triggered on a timer return access denied 401?

The fact that the http request occurs on a timer trigger probably has very little to do with the issue but is mentioned so that there is a distinction that it is not a function httptrigger.

The url has a request header that is required ("SomeHeaderKey", "SomeHeaderValue").

When performing a curl command on a url to api located in APIm (API management) there is 200 ok response.

When adding the same address with the same header within an Azure Function, I get a 401 (Access Denied).

The header key and value is the same for both the curl command and the Azure Function but wondering if that has something to do with it or is the Azure Function needing some other additional authentication. The api in APIm is taking the url as a parameter to call along with the header. The function is written in c# and here is the section of code:
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;

public async static Task RunAvailabilityTestAsync(ILogger log)
{
   public async static Task RunAvailabilityTestAsync(ILogger log)
   {
      using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
      {
         httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = 
            new AuthenticationHeaderValue("SomeHeaderKey", "SomeHeaderValue");

         await httpClient.GetStringAsync("https://api.someaddresstoAPIm.com/?url=http://someaddress.to.request");
      }
   }
}