API Gateway Engineer — Automation & Lifecycle

Makpar; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Training and career development

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Makpar is seeking a Gateway Engineer to design, develop, validate, and maintain API gateway automation workflows and lifecycle components. The role focuses on API lifecycle modernization and developer self‑service enablement within Federal government projects.

The position involves implementing standards for security, versioning, and documentation, with hands-on engineering across CI/CD environments and developer portals.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of API, integration, middleware, application platform, backend engineering, or related experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with API gateway or API management platforms.
• Experience with REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, JSON/XML, HTTP/S, TLS, API versioning, and API documentation.
• Experience implementing API security controls such as OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, SAML, mTLS, API keys, RBAC, token validation, scopes/claims, and certificate-based patterns.
• Experience with scripting or automation using Python, Bash, JavaScript/Node.js, Java, Groovy, YAML, JSON, Terraform, Helm, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and configuration-as-code practices.
• Ability to produce technical documentation, validation evidence, and operational handoff materials.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain API gateway configurations, policies, routes, services, consumer/application definitions, access controls, certificates, logging, telemetry, and deployment artifacts.
• Build reusable API onboarding and lifecycle components using configuration-as-code, templates, scripts, workflow definitions, and approved automation patterns.
• Support developer portal/API catalog capabilities, including API documentation, access request workflows, API specifications, onboarding guidance, and integration with identity/access processes.
• Support achievement of automation targets including reduction in manual onboarding steps and 100 percent Zero Trust compliance for APIs prior to production deployment.
• Implement and validate API lifecycle standards for naming, versioning, schemas, error handling, security, authentication, authorization, telemetry, and documentation.
• Support functional, connectivity, regression, security, observability, and operational-readiness validation as part of assigned deliverables.
• Document configurations, implementation steps, validation evidence, defects, retest outcomes, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Work within Government-approved CI/CD environments without owning or administering enterprise CI/CD platforms.

Skills

API gateway

REST APIs

OpenAPI/Swagger

OAuth2/OIDC

JWT

SAML

Python

Terraform

Git workflows

Documentation

Tools

IBM API Gateway

Kong

Apigee

MuleSoft

Azure API Management

AWS API Gateway

OpenShift/Kubernetes

Backstage/Dev Portal

Job description

Makpar is seeking a Gateway Engineer to design, develop, validate, and maintain API gateway automation workflows and lifecycle components. The role focuses on API lifecycle modernization and developer self‑service enablement within Federal government projects.

The position involves implementing standards for security, versioning, and documentation, with hands-on engineering across CI/CD environments and developer portals.