Gateway Automation Engineer

Acuity

$90K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Reston, VA
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience in automation, integration, or API lifecycle solutions
  • Experience with enterprise API gateway platforms like IBM webMethods, Kong, Google Apigee, and AWS API Gateway
  • Proficient in developing scripts, configuration-as-code, and Git workflows
  • Experience integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines and governance checks
  • Knowledge of automating gateway routes, policies, and authentication processes
  • Strong written communication skills for documentation and knowledge transfer

Responsibilities

  • Develop and validate API gateway automation components for onboarding and deployment
  • Build reusable scripts and configuration-as-code artifacts
  • Support automation for gateway services, policies, and consumer management
  • Integrate automation components with CI/CD pipelines
  • Implement automated validation checks for API specifications and governance rules
  • Support developer portal workflows and API documentation updates
  • Troubleshoot automation and deployment issues in various environments
  • Prepare documentation, validation evidence, and knowledge-transfer materials

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies
  • Supportive work environment and team collaboration
  • Health and wellness programs
Full Job Description
Overview

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. 

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 
Qualifications
  • 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 

Clearance Requirement 

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. federal suitability 

 

 

 

 

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