Gateway Automation Engineer

Makpar is a comprehensive professional and technical solutions provider for the Federal government. They are seeking a Gateway Automation Engineer to develop, validate, and maintain API-gateway automation components that integrate with Government-owned CI/CD pipelines and approved DevSecOps toolchains.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain EAG/API-gateway automation components that integrate with Government-approved CI/CD pipelines
• Create and validate configuration-as-code, pipeline-compatible deployment artifacts, gateway promotion workflows, API validation gates, and migration automation components
• Support automated checks for API specification quality, governance compliance, Zero Trust controls, telemetry, configuration drift, and production-readiness evidence
• Build automation and validation evidence that supports PWS automation outcomes, including 75 percent manual onboarding reduction, 90 percent automated onboarding success rate, and 100 percent Zero Trust/governance compliance prior to production deployment
• Troubleshoot gateway-side CI/CD integration issues, including deployment failures, configuration errors, credential/certificate dependencies, environment promotion issues, and validation gate failures
• Support Git-based version control, branching, pull/merge request workflows, artifact repositories, and release evidence
• Coordinate with Government CI/CD, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, identity, network, and release teams for platform-owned dependencies
• Produce pipeline documentation, automation runbooks, validation logs, deployment evidence, rollback steps, and knowledge-transfer materials

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in automation engineering, API gateway engineering, DevOps-adjacent application/platform engineering, integration engineering, or software delivery automation
• 2+ years integrating application/platform components with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Git, YAML/JSON, scripting, build/deploy automation, environment promotion, artifact management, and configuration-as-code
• Experience with API gateways, API management platforms, middleware, microservices, or application integration platforms
• Familiarity with pipeline-integrated validation, automated deployment checks, security gates, telemetry checks, and release evidence
• Experience working within enterprise-controlled CI/CD environments where another team owns the toolchain
• Strong troubleshooting and documentation skills
• Active IRS MBI or recent IRS suitability
• Experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Tekton, Argo CD, Harness, Bamboo, or comparable tools
• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, containers, secrets/certificates management, or cloud deployment patterns
• Experience automating API gateway configuration for Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, IBM webMethods, WSO2, 3scale, or comparable platforms
• Experience implementing automated governance, Zero Trust validation, API specification validation, telemetry validation, or migration-readiness checks
• FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, IRS IRM 10.8, IRS Publication 4812, or comparable federal security-control experience
• Experience with OAuth2/OIDC/SAML/JWT/mTLS, certificate lifecycle management, and gateway policy automation