SME Application / API Lifecycle Automation Developer

Acuity INC•Reston, VA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Acuity, Inc. seeks an SME Application / API Lifecycle Automation Developer to support the design, development, validation, and sustainment of secure API lifecycle automation for a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment. This role develops reusable automation capabilities that support API onboarding, configuration, governance, deployment, developer enablement, and migration readiness across the current IBM webMethods baseline, centralized onboarding model, and future approved target gateway platforms. The SME Application / API Lifecycle Automation Developer helps transition centralized, manually coordinated onboarding into controlled, automated, and self-service API lifecycle workflows. This role works within approved CI/CD, security, identity, gateway, and release processes to deliver tested, documented, and reusable automation capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
7+ years of experience developing application automation, API lifecycle, integration, platform, or enterprise workflow solutions
Experience designing and developing secure automation workflows for API onboarding, configuration, deployment, governance, documentation, or lifecycle management
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 developing scripts, templates, configuration-as-code artifacts, pipeline-integrated workflows, or reusable deployment patterns
Experience integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, access controls, validation gates, logging, monitoring, controlled release processes, and partially manual deployment environments
Experience with API specifications, REST services, OpenAPI/Swagger, JSON, YAML, authentication patterns, authorization controls, and API documentation practices
Experience validating automation workflows through functional, regression, security, telemetry, usability, and operational readiness checks
Experience troubleshooting automation, gateway configuration, developer portal, pipeline integration, or API deployment issues across legacy and target gateway environments
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

Design, develop, validate, and maintain API lifecycle automation workflows for centralized onboarding, self-service onboarding, updates, migration readiness, and retirement
Develop reusable automation components for API registration, access request routing, gateway configuration, policy enforcement, deployment support, and lifecycle documentation
Build and maintain configuration-as-code artifacts, templates, scripts, and reusable patterns for API gateway configuration and promotion
Support developer portal integrations, API catalog capabilities, API documentation workflows, and self-service onboarding processes
Integrate API automation workflows with approved CI/CD pipelines, including environments with existing manual deployment steps, validation gates, identity controls, logging, monitoring, and change processes
Implement automated checks for API specifications, naming conventions, versioning, schema quality, governance rules, telemetry requirements, and migration readiness
Support Zero Trust-aligned automation for authentication, authorization, token validation, RBAC, encryption, segmentation, and least-privilege access patterns
Troubleshoot automation, pipeline integration, gateway configuration, developer portal, validation, and deployment issues across non-production and production environments
Produce validation evidence, runbooks, workflow documentation, configuration documentation, API standards documentation, release materials, and knowledge-transfer artifacts