Overview
Integrations Lead – API Connect Admin Jobs in Islāmābād, Pakistan at Systems Limited
Title: Integrations Lead – API Connect Admin
Company: Systems Limited
Location: Islāmābād, Pakistan
The Integrations Lead is responsible for designing, deploying, administering, and supporting the IBM API Connect platform across cloud and on-premises environments. The role ensures high availability, security, performance, and reliability of API services while supporting CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, incident management, and enterprise integration requirements. The consultant works closely with architects, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable and secure middleware solutions.
Responsibilities
- Install, configure, deploy, administer, and monitor IBM API Connect in cloud and on-premises VM environments.
- Monitor platform health to ensure API performance, availability, and stability.
- Lead and participate in incident resolution and root cause analysis activities.
- Analyze logs and system metrics to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Configure and manage backup and restoration of IBM API Connect subsystems and configuration data.
- Maintain and support CI/CD pipelines for API build and deployment.
- Manage the API lifecycle using the API Management Portal across multiple API catalogs.
- Perform consumer management including user, group, role, and security configuration.
- Administer the IBM API Connect Developer Portal, including portal configuration, Drupal themes, and UI/content changes.
- Integrate third-party tools such as Elastic for analytics and customer dashboards.
- Utilize Splunk for advanced search queries, monitoring, and alerting for failures.
- Configure platform security using TLS profiles and native OAuth2 mechanisms.
- Apply product maintenance patches, interim fixes, and version upgrades.
- Support technical discovery sessions and provide architecture, infrastructure, and security inputs.
- Define hardware specifications, networking requirements, and storage sizing for IBM API Connect.
- Coordinate with IBM Technical Support and IBM Technical Sales to resolve technical issues.
- Ensure adherence to enterprise standards, security frameworks, change management, and release management processes.
- Provide technical guidance, documentation, knowledge transfer, and operational reporting as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (preferred).
- Strong hands-on experience with IBM API Connect in enterprise environments.
- Proven experience in middleware administration, API management, and platform operations.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, API lifecycle management, and automation practices.
- Hands-on experience with Splunk, log analysis, monitoring, and alerting.
- Solid understanding of security concepts including TLS, OAuth2, and enterprise security frameworks.
- Experience working in both cloud and on-premises environments.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage senior technical and business stakeholders.
