Job Description
Role Overview
Role / Job Title:Senior GCP APIGEE Engineer
Work Location:Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh (2 days)
The Role
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 DevOps capabilities for the Group. This role drives innovation to enable customers to have rapid and seamless Google Cloud adoption and build their business journeys more scalable, resilient, and efficient.
You will be part of a cross-disciplinary feature team, in addition to being a highly experienced member of our wider Lloyds engineering team delivering change.
Your role as a GCP APIGEE specialist involves supporting teams with modern DevOps solutions, curating scalable GCP Cloud Products as IaaC, and building APIGEE/API solutions while modernising the APIGEE gateway. You'll learn new skills, technologies, and approaches to software development, while benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity and equal opportunity.
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 like 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 for secure and compliant API ecosystems
* 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 standardize reusable templates for API development
Essential Skills / Knowledge / 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 (good to have)
* Experience with Jenkins, GitHub, Harness for pipeline automation
* Knowledge of Google Kubernetes Engine (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)
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