Senior Gateway / Platform Engineer

Acuity•Reston, VA

5d•Remote

About The Position

Acuity, Inc. seeks a Senior Gateway / Platform Engineer to support the operation, modernization, and migration of a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment. This role supports API gateway configuration, platform engineering, integration, validation, documentation, and production readiness across the current IBM webMethods baseline, hybrid on-prem/cloud environments, and future approved target gateway platforms. The Senior Gateway / Platform Engineer helps sustain reliable gateway operations while implementing approved modernization, migration, automation, observability, and platform-currency activities. This role works within approved architecture, security, infrastructure, CI/CD, and release processes to deliver controlled, validated, and documented API gateway 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
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

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