API Integration Lead

Chameleon Integrated Services•St. Louis, MO

1d•Remote

About The Position

We are a growing information technology company that offers its employees a culture of success, the chance to work on revolutionary federal IT infrastructure, and the opportunity to grow alongside cutting-edge technology that is reshaping the industry. We are seeking forward-thinking candidates that have strong experience in operational support and can help take to the next level in a proactive stance. Chameleon Integrated Services has expertise in operations management, quality systems, data operations and cybersecurity. We secure some of the most sensitive data for the Department of Defense and for other U.S. federal government agencies. We are known for the great care we take with clients and employees, and we believe in promoting from within. The API Integration Lead will serve as the senior hands-on technical lead for enterprise API management and integration, with particular responsibility for the existing WSO2 API Manager environment. This is not primarily an application developer position. OJP currently operates a WSO2 API Manager product suite consisting of six modules hosted across approximately 40 Linux servers supporting Development, Test, UAT, Staging, and Production. The environment is used to publish APIs, provide custom API integration, guide other product teams, monitor data throughput, and implement rate limiting.

Requirements

8+ years in API integration, middleware, integration engineering, platform engineering, or closely related enterprise integration work.
5 years of relevant DevOps/data-integration experience.
3+ years of hands-on WSO2 API Manager experience strongly preferred.
Must have personally administered, engineered, or supported a production enterprise API-management/gateway platform.
Strong hands-on knowledge of OAuth2, SAML, TLS/SSL, authentication, authorization, certificates/secrets, and API security policies.
SCIM experience is strongly preferred because OJP specifically identifies SAML, OAuth2, and SCIM.
Strong REST API and microservices integration experience.
Hands-on experience implementing throttling, quotas, rate limiting, throughput controls, or equivalent gateway policies.
Production troubleshooting and administration experience in Linux-hosted API or middleware environments.
Experience incorporating APIs/gateway configuration into automated pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git/GitHub, or similar tools.
Experience analyzing application/gateway logs, transaction failures, latency, throughput, availability, and security events.
Candidate must have supported live production APIs/platforms. Pure development experience is insufficient.

Nice To Haves

AWS/AWS GovCloud, Azure, Docker, ECS, Kubernetes/OpenShift, or comparable container/cloud experience preferred.
Splunk experience is particularly useful in OJP’s environment.
WSO2 API Manager training or certification is valuable, but direct production experience is more important.
Relevant API-management credentials, Azure DevOps/GitHub training, AWS/Azure certifications, Kubernetes/container certifications, and security credentials are favorable.
Appropriate certifications or training in areas such as API management, Azure DevOps, and GitHub rather than mandating one specific certification.

Responsibilities

Perform design, publication, versioning, policy enforcement, deployment/promotion, monitoring, deprecation, troubleshooting, and production support.
Advise application teams on API contracts, integration patterns, error handling, and interoperability.
Analyze application/gateway logs, transaction failures, latency, throughput, availability, and security events.
Produce technical designs, API standards, deployment instructions, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and integration guidance for other engineering teams.
Supported live production APIs/platforms.