Senior GCP APIGEE Engineer

Senior GCP APIGEE Engineer

Location: Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Implementation Partner: TCS

Remote Work Option: Hybrid (2 Days onsite in a week)

We’re looking to recruit a Senior GCP APIGEE Engineer to be part of our Public Cloud Platform and help achieve our mission to provide compliant and efficient Google Cloud Infra, product and Dev Ops capabilities for the Group. The role involves supporting teams with modern Dev Ops solutions, curating scalable GCP Cloud Products as IaaC, and building and modernising APIGEE gateways.

You’ll work within a cross‑disciplinary feature team as a highly experienced member of the wider Lloyds engineering team, driving change and innovation.

• Hands‑on development and management of Google Apigee API Management Platform.
• Design, build, and deploy API proxies, policies, and configurations in Apigee.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for API lifecycle management using tools like Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, or Harness.
• Develop and maintain API security policies (OAuth, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, threat protection).
• Automate Apigee deployments and configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Integrate Apigee with GCP services (Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Big Query, etc.) for end‑to‑end solutions.
• Build automated workflows and scripts for API operations using Python.
• Manage API analytics, monitoring, and logging for performance and compliance.
• Enforce GCP Organization Policies and API governance standards for secure and compliant API ecosystems.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops teams to implement containerised Apigee components and manage deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Optimise API performance and scalability through caching, quota management, and traffic routing.
• Support migration of legacy APIs into Apigee and standardise reusable templates for API development.

• Strong hands‑on experience with Google Apigee API Management.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices for API deployments.
• Python scripting for automation and workflow orchestration.
• Familiarity with Terraform / Terraform Cloud for IaC (good to have).
• Experience with Jenkins, Git Hub, Harness for pipeline automation.
• Knowledge of Google Kubernetes (GKE) and container orchestration.
• Understanding of API security standards and policy‑as‑code (OPA/Sentinel).
• GCP Certified (preferably Apigee Certified API Engineer).
• Good to have:
  Experience with IDE platforms for API development (e.g., Backstage).

GCP, APIGEE

5‑8 Years

Mid‑Senior level

Contract

Information Technology, Finance, and Business Development

Financial Services and Banking