IT Specialist, Cloud and Automation.

Job Overview

As an IT Specialist, you will be responsible for end-to-end software packaging, testing, deployment, and life cycle management across the client's UK estate.

The candidate will have excellent knowledge and practical experience working within a busy IT team and be able to show experience with Packaging and Software Distribution of applications.

Location

London, UK

Start Date and End Date: 26/10/2026 to 30/06/2027

Rate: Attractive Rates On InsideIR35

Working Schedule: Mon-Fri 09:00-17:30

Job Description

• 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.

Essential skills and 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 life cycle 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.
• Strong Linux skills and practical Scripting or development experience using Python, Bash, JavaScript, Node.js or a comparable language.
• 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.

Desirable skills

• 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.

Additional Information: Interview Process: In Person/Teams/Telephonic