At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead migration projects and optimise API solutions using Google Apigee and AWS services.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking tech company focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with excellent career advancement potential in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by driving API strategies and enhancing integrations.
- Qualifications: Expertise in Google Apigee, AWS, and strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Apigee Lead Engineer with strong expertise in Google Apigee, including migration from Apigee Edge to Apigee X.
Skilled in bridging development and operations by automating workflows, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring reliable software deployment.
Proven ability to manage infrastructure, monitor performance, and collaborate across teams to maintain scalable, secure, and resilient systems.
- Key role and responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and monitor solutions using
- AWS services
- (Lambda, API Gateway, Cloud Watch, ECS, ECR, Dynamo, S3 etc.)
- Integrate APIs into CI/CD pipelines using
- Azure Dev Ops ,
- Github workflows
- Lead and execute migration projects from Apigee Edge to Apigee X, ensuring minimal disruption and optimal performance
- Design, deploy, and manage applications tailored to business needs, while customizing platforms and overseeing the full API lifecycle using Apigee Edge and X.
- Drive API strategy execution, provide technical support, and generate insights through analytics to enhance integrations and documentation.
- Key skills for this role
- Security Cleared or Clearable
- Excellent leadership communication, coaching and mentoring the team.
- Senior stakeholder engagement, ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organisation including Executive Directors.
This includes economic considerations for the product roadmap.
- Extensive experience with Google Apigee, including migration from Edge to X
- Ability to generate custom analytics reports for API consumption and errors
- Hands‑on experience with infrastructure‑as‑code tools (e. g. Terraform, Ansible) is a must
- Proficiency with
AWS cloud tools and architecture , including deploying microservices using ECS, ECR and Fargate.
- Hands‑on experience with Python
- Hands‑on experience with Docker.
- Experience in setting up and managing
- Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of build and deployment methodologies for distributed systems
- Solid experience with enterprise‑grade applications and systems
- Proficiency in Node. js‑based web applications
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
- Implementation of API security and access control (OAuth, API keys, JWT, etc.)
- Familiarity with API design patterns, best practices, and performance optimisation
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