Gateway Automation Engineer

Acuity•Reston, VA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Acuity, Inc. seeks a Gateway Automation Engineer to support product-specific automation for a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment. This role develops, validates, documents, and maintains API gateway automation components that integrate with approved CI/CD pipelines, configuration repositories, gateway platforms, validation gates, and controlled release processes. The Gateway Automation Engineer helps strengthen repeatable gateway configuration, deployment support, governance validation, migration readiness, and operational consistency across the current IBM webMethods baseline, centralized onboarding model, and future approved target gateway platforms. This role works within approved gateway, CI/CD, security, identity, observability, and release processes to deliver tested and documented automation outcomes. Join Acuity, Inc., a technology consulting firm that supports federal agencies. We combine industry partnerships and long-term federal experience with innovative technical leadership to support our customers’ critical missions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
5+ years of experience developing automation, integration, API lifecycle, platform, middleware, or enterprise workflow solutions
Experience developing product-specific automation for enterprise API gateway platforms such as IBM webMethods API Gateway, Kong, Google Apigee, 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 developing scripts, templates, configuration-as-code artifacts, Git-based workflows, reusable deployment patterns, or gateway configuration packages
Experience integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines, validation gates, controlled release processes, logging, monitoring, and access controls
Experience configuring or automating gateway routes, services, policies, certificates, consumers, plugins, authentication, authorization, telemetry, and environment promotion patterns
Experience supporting API onboarding, developer portal workflows, API catalog updates, API documentation, governance checks, or migration-readiness workflows
Experience validating automation through functional, regression, security, telemetry, and operational readiness checks
Experience troubleshooting automation, gateway configuration, pipeline integration, deployment-support, or observability issues across legacy and target gateway environments
Strong written communication skills for automation 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

Responsibilities

Develop and validate product-specific API gateway automation components for onboarding, configuration, deployment support, migration readiness, and operational sustainment
Build reusable scripts, templates, configuration-as-code artifacts, Git-based patterns, and gateway configuration packages
Support automation for gateway routes, services, policies, certificates, consumers, plugins, authentication, authorization, logging, telemetry, and environment promotion patterns
Integrate gateway automation components with approved CI/CD pipelines, including environments with existing manual deployment steps
Implement automated validation checks for API specifications, gateway configuration, governance rules, Zero Trust controls, telemetry, and migration readiness
Support automation touchpoints for developer portal workflows, API catalog updates, API documentation, access request routing, and self-service onboarding
Troubleshoot automation, gateway configuration, pipeline integration, validation, promotion, and deployment-support issues across non-production and production environments
Support technical refresh, platform currency, and target-platform readiness activities through controlled automation updates and validation evidence
Prepare automation documentation, configuration baselines, validation evidence, runbooks, release materials, and knowledge-transfer artifacts