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Apigee Lead Engineer

Posted 4 days 13 hours ago by Cognizant

Permanent

Full Time

Other

London, City Of Westminster, United Kingdom, NW1 4

Job Description

Summary

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, CloudWatch, ECS, ECR, Dynamo, S3 etc.)
Integrate APIs into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, 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 DevOps 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