Job Description

Hybrid role with once per month visit to the office in Leeds.

Looking for someone who is SC Cleared or SC Eligible (has lived in the UK for the last 5 years)

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 SC Eligible Excellent leadership communication, coaching and mentoring the team. Senior stakeholder engagement, ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organization 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

If you wish to apply kindly email your profile to christina.ioannidis@cognizant.com



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