Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Acuity, Inc. is a technology consulting firm supporting federal agencies, and they are seeking a Senior Gateway / Platform Engineer to enhance their Enterprise API Gateway environment. The role involves supporting API gateway configurations, platform engineering, and ensuring production readiness while implementing modernization and migration strategies.
Responsibilities
- Configure and support enterprise API gateway environments across development, test, pre-production, production, hybrid on-prem/cloud, and approved dual-run environments
- Install, configure, integrate, and validate API gateway platform components for approved modernization, technical refresh, platform currency, and target-platform readiness activities
- Configure gateway routes, services, policies, certificates, consumers, plugins, authentication, authorization, logging, telemetry, and environment promotion patterns
- Support API onboarding, updates, lifecycle changes, versioning, deprecation, retirement, and migration-readiness activities across current centralized onboarding and future automated onboarding models
- Develop technical inputs for API inventories, migration sequencing, cutover readiness, rollback planning, and dual-run operations
- Support migration of APIs from IBM webMethods to a target API gateway platform through approved migration waves
- Troubleshoot gateway issues involving routing, connectivity, latency, availability, policy enforcement, identity integration, logging, telemetry, and platform configuration
- Coordinate gateway integration touchpoints with approved identity, network, monitoring, logging, incident-management, change-management, CI/CD, OpenShift/container platform, and observability processes
- Perform product-specific validation, including connectivity, regression, security, performance, observability, and operational readiness checks
- Prepare configuration baselines, as-built documentation, runbooks, release evidence, rollback materials, and knowledge-transfer artifacts
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 7+ years of experience supporting enterprise API gateway, integration, middleware, or application platform environments
- Hands-on experience with one or more enterprise API gateway products such as IBM webMethods API Gateway, Google Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, Red Hat 3scale, Axway Amplify, WSO2 API Manager, Tyk, or comparable platforms
- Experience configuring gateway routes, services, policies, certificates, consumers, plugins, authentication, authorization, logging, telemetry, and promotion patterns
- Experience supporting API onboarding, publication, lifecycle management, versioning, deprecation, retirement, and migration readiness
- Experience supporting gateway modernization, platform currency, technical refresh, production readiness, release evidence, rollback planning, and hybrid or containerized gateway environments
- Experience troubleshooting API gateway issues across development, test, pre-production, production, or dual-run environments
- Familiarity with CI/CD-enabled deployment processes, configuration-as-code concepts, change control, release coordination, and operational validation, including environments with partial manual deployment steps
- Ability to coordinate effectively across architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, CI/CD, database, network, identity, operations, and release teams
- Strong written communication skills for technical documentation, validation evidence, runbooks, release materials, and knowledge transfer
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. federal suitability
Benefits
- Personalized development plans
- Mentorship
- Up to $3,000 annually for training and certifications
- Up to $3,000 for degree seeking programs
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits
- Strong focus on work-life balance
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