System Engineer API Management

System Engineer API Management

Experience: 3-5 years

Language: English + French/Dutch

Mode : Hybrid (3 days/Week)

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Your mission

You advise and manage the set-up of our API Management platform.

Our current solution relies on KONG. But you can works technology agnostic so that your expertise is of assistance in future vendor/solution assessments.

You align with enterprise architecture and Technical architects on the API middleware.

You structure and maintain API documentation, define and enforce API policies.

You support teams in designing secure, consistent, and reusable APIs.

You ensures governance, observability, and compliance across the API lifecycle while coordinating with development, product, and security teams.

Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes is required to contribute to the container‑based platform services design, maintenance, and evolution. The position is expected to evolve toward platform engineering. Contributing to automation, self‑service capabilities, and the industrialization of API delivery and operations.

Required Skills:

• API management principles.
• API management tools
• KONG
• GOOGLE APIGEE
• GraphQL
• AWS services: EKS, SQS, S3
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
• Monitoring and logging in cloud-native environments
• ELK
• Datadog
• Kubernetes
• Understanding of Java Spring Boot development

Nice to Have / Bonus Skills:

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL
• Kafka (Confluent)

Skills

API Management

AWS

Monitoring & Observability

Proactive, ability to take initiatives in its own area of responsibilities and solution oriented