Senior IBM API Connect Developer at CYNET SYSTEMS — NeverHard

Pay Range: $46.00hr - $51.00hr Job Overview: Our client is seeking a Senior APIC Developer / API Gateway Platform Engineer. The successful candidate will bring strong hands-on experience with IBM API Connect v10, DataPower API Gateway, API Assembly, and User Defined Policies (UDP). Responsibilities include managing API onboarding, publishing, deployment, Products, Plans, Catalogs, and subscriptions across enterprise environments. The candidate will configure and support gateway policies for security, routing, transformation, traffic management, and backend integration while demonstrating a strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, REST, and OpenAPI/API security standards. Additional duties include utilizing Ansible and CI/CD automation for API validation, onboarding, publishing, deployment, and configuration; supporting APIC platform upgrades, fix packs/firmware, migrations, version lifecycles, and weekly releases; providing L2 production support, troubleshooting, and RCA for APIC/API Gateway platform issues; reviewing new digital/API intake requirements to provide technical assessment, platform impact, and effort sizing; and adhering to bank-defined Enterprise Architecture patterns and standards for API Gateway onboarding, security, configuration, and deployment. Good to Have: Experience with AWS and AWS API Gateway, particularly in hybrid/cloud API integration environments. TDD and automated API testing experience. Exposure to Agentic AI for API testing, validation, troubleshooting and platform automation. Experience supporting large-scale, highly governed enterprise API platforms. BFSI/banking domain understanding, including secure and highly available digital/API platforms.