System Engineer - API Management

About Us :

For more than 25 years, ITS Group has been a French ESN specializing in digital transformation, employing around 1,400 employees across 8 agencies in France and 1 in Belgium.

Our expertise: IT infrastructure & operations, cloud & managed services, mobility, workstations & networks, strategy, consulting & AMO, cybersecurity, development of business applications.

ITS Group places its CSR commitment at the heart of its concerns by developing sustainable and responsible digital technology and by promoting the professional and personal development of its employees.

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About the Job :

Great assignments await you with our key account clients in rich and varied environments

The organization is looking for a System Engineer specialized in API Management to support its digital transformation and evolving energy market activities.

The role focuses on designing, implementing, and operating a robust API management platform within a modern, cloud-native, container-based ecosystem.

The engineer will play a key role in:

• Ensuring high-quality system delivery in an integrated IT landscape
• Supporting secure, scalable, and reusable API design
• Driving API governance, standardization, and observability
• Contributing to the evolution toward platform engineering, with a strong emphasis on automation and industrialization

The position requires close collaboration with enterprise architecture, technical teams, product, and security stakeholders , and the ability to work in a technology-agnostic mindset for future solutions.

Your mission:

• Advise on and manage the setup and evolution of the API Management platform
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and technical architecture
• Define, enforce, and maintain API standards, policies, and governance frameworks
• Support development teams in building secure, consistent, and reusable APIs
• Ensure compliance, observability, and lifecycle management of APIs
• Contribute to container-based platform services using Kubernetes
• Participate in the transition toward platform engineering, including automation and self-service capabilities
• Support the industrialization of API delivery and operations

Your activities:

• Configure, manage, and optimize API management solutions (currently based on Kong, with openness to alternatives like Google Apigee)
• Design and maintain API documentation and standards
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (development, product, security)
• Implement and monitor API governance frameworks
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines for API deployment
• Ensure monitoring, logging, and observability using tools such as ELK and Datadog
• Work with AWS services (EKS, SQS, S3) in a cloud-native environment
• Participate in Kubernetes-based platform design, maintenance, and evolution
• Support GraphQL and REST API design and integration
• Contribute to system reliability, scalability, and performance improvements

You have the following skills:

Core Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of API management principles
• Hands-on experience with API management tools (Kong, Google Apigee)
• Knowledge of GraphQL
• Experience with AWS services (EKS, SQS, S3)
• Solid experience with Kubernetes
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in monitoring and logging in cloud-native environments (ELK, Datadog)
• Knowledge of Java Spring Boot development

Languages

• Fluent in English, Dutch, and French

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL
• Experience with Kafka (Confluent)