Apigee Consultants (Contract)

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

Job summary

Curo Services is seeking an experienced Apigee-X engineer/architect to configure and test proxies, policies, and environment settings across four workstreams in a hybrid London-based role.

The candidate should be proficient with API authentication, token handling, troubleshooting end-to-end requests, and implementing repeatable deployment practices using Terraform, GitHub, Harness and related tooling in a regulated financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Apigee X engineering experience in production.
• Experience with OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS and certificate management.
• Experience automating Apigee X and GCP with Terraform and APIs.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Harness, Jenkins, Cloud Build).
• Experience with Istio/Anthos Service Mesh and private connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate secure API capabilities on Apigee X and Google Cloud.
• Develop and maintain API proxies, policies, environments.
• Implement API security patterns and secrets management.
• Automate configuration and deployments using Terraform and supported tools.
• Create CI/CD pipelines covering validation, testing, deployment and rollback.
• Provide production support and post-change validation.

Skills

Apigee X production

CI/CD pipelines

GCP networking

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

Terraform

GitHub / CI tools

GKE / Cloud Run

Security patterns

Logging/Monitoring

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Harness

Backstage

Jenkins / Cloud Build

Dynatrace

Google Cloud

Kubernetes / GKE

Job description

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 lifecycle 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.
• 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.