Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. West 4th Strategy, LLC is seeking an experienced Senior Gateway / Platform Engineer at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In this role, you will support the IRS Enterprise API Gateway Modernization and Operations effort, acting as the lead technical resource for the gateway platform migration and configuration.
Responsibilities
- Serves as the lead technical resource for day-to-day configuration, troubleshooting, and engineering support of the Enterprise API Gateway (currently IBM webMethods) across test, pre-production, and production environments
- Designs and implements API-side configuration changes — routes, policies, plugins, certificates, control/data plane patterns — within Government-approved architecture and security boundaries
- Leads product-specific engineering input for the new API Gateway platform installation and configuration once authorized by the Government, coordinating closely with IRS infrastructure, identity, and network teams for anything outside contractor control
- Provides technical leadership for phased API migration wave execution, including equivalent routing/policy/authentication configuration on the target platform and rollback readiness
- Supports platform currency and technical refresh activities (runtime upgrades, SSO/certificate updates, gateway component upgrades) at the application/gateway-platform layer
- Produces or reviews technical artifacts such as the Installation and Configuration Package, configuration baselines, and runbooks
- Explicitly does not own enterprise infrastructure architecture, does not hold Infrastructure Architect authority, and does not make ATO/cybersecurity risk-acceptance decisions
Skills
- 7 years of experience performing similar duties to this role
- Experience may include, but is not limited to, platforms such as Google Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, RedHat 3scale, Axway Amplify, WSO2 API Manager, Tyk, or comparable enterprise API gateway products
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field
- U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident is required
- Ability to obtain IRS Minimum Background Investigation security clearance
- MBI is preferred
- Remote – Preferred to be based in National Capital Region
Benefits
- Benefits package includes options for health, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- 401k contribution options
- Employment Classification Eligibility — W2
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