IBM API Management Engineer

Role Name : IBM API Management Engineer

Location : India (remote)

We are planning to hire a consultant with IBM API management expertise, please review the JD

Description : We are seeking an experienced API Management Engineer to design, implement, and operate our Enterprise AI API platform. You will collaborate with architecture, development, security and DevOps teams to build a scalable, secure, and robust API-ecosystem using IBM’s API management technologies. You will own the entire API lifecycle — from design through deployment, monitoring, governance, and retirement

1. Design and build APIs using IBM API Connect, DataPower gateways, or equivalent API management platform

2. Define API governance policies : authentication / authorization (OAuth2, API-key, JWT), rate limits, quotas, versioning, and lifecycle management

3. Manage the API gateway : routing, transformation, orchestration, protocol mediation (REST, SOAP, GraphQL), and traffic control

4. Set up and maintain the developer portal : publishing APIs, onboarding internal / external consumers, documentation, self-service subscription

4. Monitor API usage, performance, latency, error metrics; analyze usage patterns and production issues

6. Handle API security and resilience : secure back-end integrations, payload validation, threat mitigation, high-availability

7. Good knowledge AWS cloud like API Gateway, S3, EKS

8. Stay up to date with API management best practices, emerging protocols (GraphQL, WebSockets), and evolving IBM tool capabilities