Technical Architect - Apigee X/GCP

Technical Architect - Apigee X/GCP
Location: Remote (occasional site visits) London
Contract: ASAP - June 2027
Role Overview:
We are looking for a hands-on Technical Architect specialising in Apigee X and Google Cloud Platform to design, implement and validate enterprise API infrastructure and integration solutions.
The role will focus on detailed technical architecture, particularly Apigee X integration with Cloud Run, private connectivity and the design of dedicated environments supporting AI, file-upload and WebSocket workloads.
The successful candidate will combine deep technical architecture expertise with practical engineering experience to deliver secure, scalable and operationally supportable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce detailed technical designs for Apigee X and GCP API management infrastructure.
• Design and implement secure private connectivity between Apigee X and Cloud Run.
• Architect dedicated Apigee environments and environment groups for specific workloads.
• Define routing, DNS, TLS certificate management, trust and connectivity patterns.
• Design network, IAM, capacity, security and workload isolation configurations.
• Develop reusable API platform architecture patterns and technical standards.
• Work with engineering teams to implement and validate architectural designs.
• Support Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Review API proxies, shared flows, policies, target Servers and environment configurations.
• Troubleshoot complex API routing, networking, authentication and performance issues.
• Define monitoring, logging, observability and operational resilience requirements.
• Lead technical design reviews, integration testing and production-readiness assessments.
• Produce technical documentation, implementation guidance and operational runbooks.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing Apigee X solutions.
• Strong technical architecture experience across GCP.
• Deep knowledge of Apigee proxies, shared flows, policies, target Servers, environments and environment groups.
• Demonstrable experience integrating Apigee X with Cloud Run or private GCP services.
• Strong knowledge of GCP networking, DNS, VPCs, IAM, service accounts and load balancing.
• Experience designing secure connectivity using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, TLS and mTLS.
• Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Ability to design and troubleshoot complex API platform integrations.
• Experience with capacity planning, environment isolation and production resilience.
• Strong Linux, Scripting and technical troubleshooting skills.

Desirable Experience

• Experience supporting AI-related API workloads, file-upload services or WebSocket connectivity.
• Experience with GKE, Istio or Anthos Service Mesh.
• Knowledge of Harness, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Cloud Build.
• Experience with Dynatrace or Google Cloud Operations.
• Experience working within regulated financial-services organisations.
• Google Cloud or Apigee certifications.