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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Senior IBM API Connect Infrastructure Specialist

Site Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBogotá, Bogota, ColombiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience administering middleware or API management platforms in high-availability production environments.
  • Expertise in IBM API Connect v10, including Management (API Manager and Cloud Manager), Gateway, Developer Portal, and Analytics subsystems.
  • Experience operating API Connect on Kubernetes using operators and custom resources (CRDs).
  • Strong Kubernetes experience in managed public-cloud environments, primarily Amazon EKS and additionally Azure AKS, including kubectl, Helm, pods, deployments, statefulsets, persistent storage, ingress, and network policies.
  • Experience with AWS services supporting the platform, including EC2, ELB/NLB, Route 53, Certificate Manager, and CloudWatch.
  • Experience configuring products and plans in API Manager, including consumption plans, rate limits, quotas, and subscriptions.
  • Experience managing TLS and mTLS certificates, including generation, installation, and renewal.
  • Knowledge of platform-level API security mechanisms, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, API keys, and IP allowlists.
  • Experience backing up and restoring API Connect subsystems.
  • Experience diagnosing connectivity and performance issues using log and trace analysis, latency analysis, and end-to-end testing.
  • Knowledge of scripting for automation using Bash or Python.
  • Experience with IT service management tools.
  • Intermediate technical English for reading documentation and communicating with vendors.
  • Ability to provide technical guidance to semi-senior and junior team members.
  • Ability to coordinate with container and DevOps, network, operating systems, and application development teams.
  • Availability for on-call duty for critical incidents.
  • Ability to work under the specified coverage schedule: 24×7 for P1/P2 incidents and emergency changes, and 12×5 Monday through Friday, 7:00–19:00 Colombia time, for P3/P4 incidents.

Responsibilities

  • Administer and operate IBM API Connect Management, Gateway, Portal, and Analytics subsystems on Kubernetes in public cloud, ensuring continuous platform availability.
  • Resolve platform incidents according to the contract service-level agreements, acting as an advanced-level resolver.
  • Perform root-cause analysis of problems and document findings and corrective actions.
  • Design and execute complex platform configuration changes, including gateway topology, published endpoints, and subsystem configuration changes.
  • Execute API Connect upgrades and fix packs during agreed maintenance windows, and analyze implementation risks in development, approval, and production environments.
  • Manage API consumption plans in API Manager, including creating and modifying products and plans, rate limits, quotas, and subscriptions as approved by application owners.
  • Adjust platform capacity by sizing pod replicas and resources, scaling horizontally, and coordinating EKS and AKS node adjustments with the container team.
  • Manage IP allowlists and related network access controls, including Kubernetes network policies, security groups, and gateway load balancer and endpoint configurations.
  • Perform end-to-end connectivity tests between consumers, the gateway, subsystems, and backend systems; diagnose networking, name-resolution, and TLS-termination issues.
  • Extract and analyze API Connect subsystem logs to diagnose incidents and provide them to development and AVC teams when required.
  • Proactively monitor platform performance, including gateway latency, error rates, pod resource consumption, and subsystem health.
  • Implement and maintain subsystem backup and restoration processes, and execute recovery procedures.
  • Install and renew platform TLS and mTLS certificates at the request of AVC's cybersecurity team.
  • Harden the platform according to AVC-approved standards, remediate vulnerabilities as directed by the cybersecurity team, and install requested security agents.
  • Identify major environment offenders and open calls to vendors, developers, or other operational support areas.
  • Open and follow up on tickets with the manufacturer, and work with the provider to resolve technical problems.
  • Prepare and maintain technical infrastructure documentation and operational runbooks for API Connect.
  • Participate in monthly tower governance meetings with the client, presenting service status, risks, and identified improvements.
  • Mentor semi-senior and junior team members and ensure knowledge transfer.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with ServiceNow, preferred.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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