Jysk - API Management Consultant

Kold+Partners; Aarhus; On-site; DKK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Solid compensation

Pension

Healthy workplace perks

Job summary

Kold+Partners is hiring an API Management Consultant based in Aarhus, Denmark. This hands-on role involves supporting developers with API publishing, analyzing logs, and ensuring platform health. You'll be working in a collaborative environment where your contributions are significant.

The ideal candidate should have a solid background in API Management concepts and experience with relevant platforms. You will also foster the growth of the API platform and may influence cloud migration strategies.

The company offers competitive compensation and benefits as part of a supportive Danish workplace.

Qualifications

• Solid grasp of API Management concepts like lifecycle, governance, and monitoring.
• Experience with at least one API Management platform such as WSO2 or Azure API Management.
• Understanding of API security including OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
• Comfortable troubleshooting in Linux environments.
• Basic coding skills to read and write code in any language.

Responsibilities

• Support developers with API publishing and debugging.
• Perform log analysis and OS-level investigation.
• Own the platform's health and performance.
• Build tooling for API quality scanning and environment management.
• Upgrade the platform without downtime.

Skills

API Management concepts

Experience with API Management platform

API security (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect)

Linux environments troubleshooting

Coding background

Container orchestration / Kubernetes

Job description

API Management Consultant

A developer pings the Slack channel: 'My API is timing out - can you see anything in the logs?' Another asks what authentication they should put on a service going to the public internet. A third needs help promoting their API from test to production without breaking anything. Meanwhile, the platform itself needs upgrading - without downtime - and there's a cloud migration on next year's roadmap.

That's the job. If your instinct reading that was "I'd actually enjoy that," we should talk.

We're hiring an API Management Consultant to sit in the Integration team and become a key hands‑on owner of the API platform. You'll work closely with Kenneth, who runs the show today, and gradually take over some of the depth we currently bought from external consultants.

What you'll actually be doing

This is a hands-on, operations‑leaning role - not a development role. Your week will be a mix of:

• Supporting our developers across the organization who publish their APIs to our self‑service platform – answering questions, debugging issues, advising on security choices
• Digging into the unglamorous stuff – log analysis, socket timeouts, OS‑level investigation, platform behavior under load
• Owning the platform's health – performance, security, lifecycle governance, monitoring
• Building and maintaining the tooling around API promotion, quality scanning, environment management (we have some Ansible scripts and small tools in place)
• Upgrading the platform with high availability and no downtime

Helping shape what's next – including our move toward cloud and (eventually) Kubernetes.

You'll also occasionally educate teams on best practices, but Kenneth happily covers most of that, so you don't need to be a born trainer.

Who we think you are

You don't need to tick every box below – but you should recognize yourself in the shape of it.

The mindset matters most. You see an unfamiliar problem, you grab it, you dig until you've got an answer. You're comfortable being the person who doesn't yet know what's broken but figures it out anyway. You enjoy working across many small things rather than going deep on one.

On the technical side, you bring most of these:

• Solid grasp of API Management concepts – lifecycle, governance, monitoring, rate limiting, observability, SLAs. (Crucially: you think of APIs as contracts, not just services.)
• Experience with at least one API Management platform – WSO2, Azure API Management, Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, or similar. We don't care which one – concepts transfer.
• API security – OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, mTLS, threat protection
• Comfortable in Linux environments – you can navigate, read logs, troubleshoot at OS level
• Some coding background – you don't need to be a developer, but you should be able to read and write code when needed (any language; Java is a small plus)
• Bonus points for: container orchestration / Kubernetes, cloud platforms, integration patterns, platform engineering background

This role would fit well if you're coming from an SRE, integration consultant, platform engineer, or DevOps background – or maybe something else we haven't thought of where APIs were a significant part of what you handled, likely at a larger company with a real integration setup (the kind of place where API management is a discipline, not a side task).

What we offer

• A central role in shaping our API platform and integration landscape – your work is visible and matters
• A collaborative, low‑ego culture with short decision paths and supportive feedback
• Close work with skilled colleagues across the IT organization
• An international, expanding company that genuinely invests in people's growth
• Solid compensation, pension, and the practical perks of a healthy Danish workplace

The practical stuff

Team: Integration (part of IT)

Level: Consultant – not a senior architect role, not an entry‑level one either.