Apigee Developer 6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £470 per day Slough based - hybrid working - 3 days a week on site Telecoms sector
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Apigee Developer to design, build, and manage API solutions that enable secure, scalable, and high performing integrations across our clients' digital ecosystems. You will play a key role in delivering API led connectivity strategies using Google Apigee, supporting both internal and external facing services.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast paced, technology driven environment, contributing to large scale transformation programmes and modern API architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy APIs using Apigee (Edge / X / Hybrid)
- Build and maintain API proxies, policies, and shared flows
- Implement API security standards (OAuth2, JWT, API keys, rate limiting, threat protection)
- Manage API lifecycle including design, versioning, publishing, monitoring, and deprecation
- Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to define API strategies and best practices
- Integrate APIs with backend systems (REST/SOAP services, microservices, cloud platforms)
- Troubleshoot and resolve API performance and reliability issues
- Monitor API usage and performance using Apigee analytics and logging tools
- Ensure compliance with governance, security, and auditing standards
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation of API deployments
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience working with Apigee (Edge or Apigee X/Hybrid)
- Strong understanding of API design principles (RESTful services, OpenAPI/Swagger)
- Experience implementing API security (OAuth2, JWT, SAML, TLS)
- Hands on experience with JavaScript (for Apigee policies) and API policy configuration
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
- Experience with API management concepts: traffic management, caching, throttling
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
- Strong debugging and problem solving skills
Desirable Skills
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Knowledge of containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Exposure to integration platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management)
- Understanding of DevOps practices and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.)
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments