API Engineer / Integration Engineer

Job Title: API Engineer / Integration Engineer

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About the Role

API Engineer / Integration Specialist

This role involves working closely with cross-functional engineering, architecture, and DevOps teams to ensure seamless API delivery, secure communication flows, and reliable API lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities

API Development, Configuration & Management

• Configure, customize, and modify

  API YAML

  definitions for REST/SOAP APIs.
• Develop API policies, configurations, security rules, and runtime behaviors using

  IBM API Connect

  .
• Implement end-to-end API lifecycle management including creation, versioning, publishing, deployment, and retirement.
• Ensure API governance, documentation, and compliance with enterprise standards.

IBM DataPower Integration

• Configure and manage

  IBM DataPower Gateway

  for routing, security enforcement, transformation, and protocol mediation.
• Develop and implement DataPower processing rules, proxy configurations, SSL profiles, and authentication mechanisms.
• Troubleshoot DataPower issues, performance bottlenecks, routing failures, and connectivity problems.
• Integrate DataPower services in high-security and complex multi-network environments.

API Deployment & CI/CD Automation

• Deploy APIs using

  Jenkins

  , Git-based workflows, and pre-existing enterprise pipelines.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to improve pipeline automation, validation, and quality checks.
• Participate in continuous integration, continuous delivery, and delivery automation initiatives.

Security & Compliance

• Implement API security best practices including OAuth, JWT, Basic Auth, API keys, and certificate management.
• Configure firewalls, network ACLs, and secure routing for internal/external API communication.
• Ensure compliance with organization-wide security policies, encryption guidelines, and data protection standards.

Troubleshooting & Support

• Monitor API performance, availability, and error logs using APIC/DataPower monitoring capabilities.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for API failures, routing issues, and policy misconfigurations.
• Provide L2/L3 support for API integration issues and collaborate with the infrastructure, networking, and backend teams.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Work closely with backend developers, architects, DevOps teams, and business stakeholders.
• Translate integration requirements into technical API specifications.
• Maintain technical documentation, design diagrams, deployment workflows, and API catalogs.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, estimations, and reviews.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4–7 years

  of experience in API development, integration, or middleware technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience with:

• IBM API Connect

  (API Manager, Developer Portal, Gateway Services)

• IBM DataPower Gateway

  (routing, policy enforcement, transformations)
• Solid ability to configure and modify

  API YAML

  code for REST/SOAP specs.
• Strong knowledge of

  REST APIs, SOAP services

  , API security, and API lifecycle management.
• Experience deploying APIs through

  CI/CD pipelines

  , especially using

  Jenkins

  .
• Good understanding of

  CI/CD concepts, Git workflows, and automated deployments

  .
• Strong understanding of:
• Authentication & security standards (SSL/TLS, OAuth2, JWT)
• Gateway routing rules & proxy configurations
• XML, JSON, XSLT, and transformation logic
• Familiarity with Linux environments and basic scripting (Shell/Python is a plus).

Nice to Have

• Experience with API logging and monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of networking concepts (DNS, routing, load balancers, firewalls).
• Experience in working within financial, banking, or regulated enterprise environments.
• Exposure to containerization (Docker) or Kubernetes/OpenShift.