Senior GCP APIGEE Engineer
Location: Bristol / Leeds / Halifax / Manchester / Edinburgh
We are looking for an experienced Senior GCP APIGEE Engineer to join our Public Cloud Platform team. The successful candidate will deliver scalable, secure API solutions on Google Cloud, drive innovative engineering practices, and collaborate with cross‑disciplinary teams to deploy efficient cloud infra and API products.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 such as Jenkins, GitHub 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, BigQuery, 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.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement containerized Apigee components and manage deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Optimize API performance and scalability through caching, quota management, and traffic routing.
- Support migration of legacy APIs into Apigee and standardise reusable templates.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong hands‑on experience with Google Apigee API Management.
- Expertise in CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for API deployments.
- Python scripting for automation and workflow orchestration.
- Familiarity with Terraform / Terraform Cloud for IaC.
- Experience with Jenkins, GitHub, Harness for pipeline automation.
- Knowledge of Google Kubernetes (GKE) and container orchestration.
- Understanding of API security standards and policy‑as‑code.
- GCP Certified (preferably Apigee Certified API Engineer).
- Senior engineering experience as a GCP Cloud SME, including design, architecture, and strategy guidance.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership ability across stakeholders.
Benefits
- Competitive salary package with pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, and extensive training resources.
- Access to discounts within the Tata network.
- Health & wellness initiatives and sports events support.
Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998. We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, and sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply.
We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all relevant employment laws.
