Senior Gateway / Platform Engineer

Overview

Acuity, Inc. seeks a Senior Gateway / Platform Engineer to support the operation, modernization, and migration of a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment.

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
• 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

Qualifications

• 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
• Strong written communication skills for technical documentation, validation evidence, runbooks, release materials, and knowledge transfer

About Acuity

At Acuity, your work matters—and so does your experience. We’re a management and technology consulting firm supporting critical federal missions, where you’ll have the opportunity to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside high-performing teams, and make a real impact from day one.