Apigee Consultants: Apigee, GCP, API, Google Cloud

Curo Services; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Curo Services is seeking an experienced Apigee X professional to design, build and operate secure API capabilities across Google Cloud in a hybrid London setting. You will manage proxies, security, and environment configurations, while driving automated deployments and robust CI/CD pipelines.

The role requires hands-on experience with Apigee X, OAuth/OIDC/JWT/mTLS, and Terraform-driven automation, with strong Linux scripting skills.

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineering experience delivering Apigee X in production.
• Experience with OpenAPI, OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS and certificate management.
• Knowledge of API proxies, policies and developer onboarding patterns.
• Strong understanding of GCP networking and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate API capabilities on Apigee X and Google Cloud.
• Develop and maintain API proxies, shared flows, policies and environments.
• Implement API security patterns and onboarding patterns.
• Automate configuration and deployments using Terraform, GitHub and Harness.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines with validation, testing and rollback.
• Support migration of proxies and consumers to Apigee X and self-service onboarding.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, architecture and SRE teams.
• Troubleshoot routing, TLS, authentication and connectivity issues.
• Establish logging, monitoring and alerting with Dynatrace and Google Cloud Operations.
• Perform design reviews, production readiness reviews and RCA when needed.
• Provide incident response and post-change validation.

Skills

Apigee X in prod

API security patterns

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform automation

GCP knowledge

Linux scripting

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Harness

Backstage

Dynatrace

Jenkins

Cloud Build

Job description

Apigee Consultants: Apigee, GCP, API, Google Cloud

Our prestigious client is seeking experienced Apigee‑X professionals, from the Engineer to Architect level to configure and test proxies, policies, target connectivity, security controls and environment settings across the four workstreams. The candidate should be confident with API authentication and token handling, troubleshooting end‑to‑end requests, CI/CD and repeatable deployment practices.

Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 165 days
Paye: £300 - £500 p/d (PLEASE NOTE: Employer NI is paid for by the client)
Total Paye: £349 - £585 p/d (includes rolled up holiday)
IR35 Status: Inside
Location: Hybrid/London

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate secure, resilient and scalable API capabilities on Apigee X and Google Cloud.
• Develop and maintain API proxies, shared flows, policies, target Servers, KVMs, API products, developer applications and environment configurations.
• Design and implement API security patterns using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, certificates, service accounts and appropriate secrets‑management controls.
• Build reusable API onboarding and deployment patterns that improve developer self‑service and reduce manual intervention.
• Automate Apigee X configuration and deployments using Terraform, GitHub, Harness, Backstage and supported Apigee APIs and tooling.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines covering validation, testing, security checks, promotion, deployment and rollback.
• Support the migration of existing API proxies and consumers to Apigee X and the latest self‑service onboarding patterns.
• Work with application, platform, architecture, security, network, and SRE teams to resolve complex integration and connectivity issues.
• Troubleshoot API routing, DNS, TLS, authentication, policy, performance, and private‑connectivity issues across Apigee X and GCP.
• Implement appropriate logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, and service‑level measures using tools such as Dynatrace and Google Cloud Operations.
• Conduct technical design reviews, code reviews, production‑readiness reviews, and post‑implementation validation.
• Provide production support, incident response and root‑cause analysis for the API platform and customer services.
• Ensure that solutions meet security, control, resilience and operational‑readiness requirements.
• Produce clear technical documentation and complete effective knowledge transfer to permanent engineering teams.
• Promote API engineering standards, reusable patterns and sound software‑engineering practices across the wider organisation.

Skills/Experience

• Significant hands‑on engineering experience delivering and operating Apigee X in production.
• Strong knowledge of Apigee X proxies, shared flows, policies, API products, applications, KVMs, target Servers, environments, and deployment models.
• Hands‑on experience designing and securing REST APIs using OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS and certificate‑management patterns.
• Experience with commonly used Apigee policies, including OAuthV2, VerifyAPIKey, AssignMessage, RaiseFault, ServiceCallout, SpikeArrest, Quota and threat protection.
• Strong knowledge of API life cycle management, versioning, reusable policy patterns and production‑readiness controls.
• Experience automating Apigee X and GCP configuration using Terraform and APIs.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Harness, Jenkins, Cloud Build or equivalent enterprise tooling.
• Strong understanding of GCP networking, DNS, IAM, service accounts, TLS, private connectivity, load balancing and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting production services, including monitoring, incident response, root‑cause analysis, rollback and post‑change validation.
• Strong Linux skills and practical Scripting or development experience using Python, Bash, JavaScript, Node.js or a comparable language.

Desirable

• Experience migrating APIs from Apigee Edge, APIC, MuleSoft or another Legacy gateway to Apigee X.
• Experience with Istio or Anthos Service Mesh, including ServiceEntry, VirtualService, DestinationRule and mTLS patterns.
• Experience integrating Apigee X with GKE, Cloud Run and private GCP workloads.
• Experience with Backstage‑based self‑service onboarding and golden paths.
• Experience with Dynatrace, Google Cloud Operations, Service Now.
• Google Cloud or Apigee certifications.
• Experience working in a highly regulated financial‑services environment.
• Experience using tools, language and technologies like Harness, backstage, Github Copilot, Github, Python.

Soft skills

• Ability to take end‑to‑end ownership of technical outcomes and work effectively across engineering, security, architecture and service‑management teams.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex platform issues to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.