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IBM API Connect Consultant

ShaarproPlano, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted 18 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This role offers a significant opportunity to lead a critical enterprise API modernization initiative, allowing you to expand your expertise in cutting-edge API gateway technologies and cloud-native architectures. If you are a seasoned API architect with a passion for innovation and driving impactful change, you will thrive in this position. Apply today to shape the future of API management!

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Role: IBM API Connect Consultant

Location: Plano TX-Onsite 

 

Overview

Seeking a senior API Platform Architect to lead the migration of enterprise APIs from IBM API Connect to K Gateway (Solo.io). The individual will be responsible for discovery, assessment, migration design, platform engineering, API security governance, and production rollout.

The role requires strong expertise in API Gateway technologies, Kubernetes networking, API security, and enterprise scale modernization programs.

 

Must Have Skills

API Gateway Platforms

 

Mandatory

  • IBM API Connect
  • API Gateway architecture
  • API lifecycle management
  • API security
  • API governance
  • REST APIs

 

Strongly Preferred

  • Solo.io K Gateway
  • Gloo Gateway
  • Kong

 

Kubernetes & Cloud Native

Must understand:

  • Kubernetes
  • Ingress Controllers
  • Gateway API
  • Envoy Proxy
  • Service Mesh concepts
  • Containerized workloads

The K Gateway platform is built on Kubernetes and Envoy. Knowledge of traditional API management alone will not be sufficient.

 

API Security

Expert knowledge of:

  • OAuth2
  • JWT
  • OIDC
  • Mutual TLS
  • API authorization
  • Rate limiting
  • Throttling
  • WAF integration

 

DevOps

Experience with:

  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • Kubernetes deployment automation
  • API promotion pipelines

 

Modern Integration Skills

Good understanding of:

  • Kafka
  • Event driven architectures
  • Async APIs
  • Microservices

 

Experience Requirements

Mandatory

  • 10+ years integration experience
  • 5+ years API Gateway experience
  • 2+ large scale API Gateway migrations

 

Examples:

  • IBM API Connect â¿¿ Kong
  • IBM API Connect â¿¿ Apigee
  • Apigee â¿¿ APIM
  • DataPower â¿¿ API Gateway

 

Key Responsibilities

Discovery

  • Assess IBM API Connect configurations
  • Inventory APIs and dependencies
  • Analyze policies and routing configurations

Migration Design

  • Define future state K Gateway architecture
  • Design migration waves
  • Create rollback strategies

Re engineering

  • Reverse engineer existing gateway configurations
  • Modernize API policies
  • Simplify legacy implementations where appropriate

This reverse engineering capability is very important.

 

Production Rollout

  • Support cutover activities
  • Troubleshoot production issues
  • Optimize gateway performance

 

Nice to Have (Would Differentiate Candidates)

AI / Agent Gateway Experience

If Citizens continues down the path discussed recently, experience with:

  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • AI Gateways
  • LLM Traffic Governance
  • Agentic Architecture

Skills

Microservices
API Gateway
Envoy
Service Mesh
Git
Helm
JWT
Kafka
Kubernetes
LLM
REST
Terraform
WAF

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