Senior GCP APIGEE Engineer

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Role: Senior GCP APIGEE Engineer

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Bristol / Leeds / Halifax/ Manchester/ Edinburgh

Are you passionate about driving innovation and best practices in GCP?

We have an exciting opportunity for you – Senior GCP APIGEE Engineer!

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Drive data integrity, governance, and responsible AI adoption.
• Work with cutting‐edge digital and AI platforms.
• Enable automation, intelligence, and smarter decision‐making at enterprise scale.

The Role

We're looking to recruit 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 and drive innovation to enable customers to have rapid and seamless Google Cloud Adoption and build their business journeys more scalable, resilient and efficient. Your role will be part of a cross-disciplinary feature team in addition to being a highly experienced member of our wider 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 and modernizing APIGEE gateway. You'll learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity, 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.

Your Profile

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 (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).

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• Looking for Senior Engineering Skills as GCP Cloud SMEs who has contributed also as a Technical Consultant in guiding Design, Architecture and Strategy. Bringing in thought leadership in driving innovation, best practices.
• Good communicator, collaborator and Leader with experience in working with multiple organizational stakeholders.

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted as a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com if you would like to opt in.

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Next Steps:

Application Process

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2. Skill-Based discussion: This will be a level 1 interview with the project team, it can be via video or in-person. Details will be confirmed by your recruiter.
3. Managerial discussion: This discussion will focus on behavioural aspects and person-organisation fit.
4. HR Discussion: This will be with one of the members of the HR team and will cover your career journey, aspirations for growth, compensation and any other questions you may have.

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