Role Summary The role is responsible for administering, configuring, securing, and operating multiple middleware platforms, including Kong, to ensure critical business processes meet defined service level agreements (SLAs).

Key Responsibilities

- Review high-level integration solution designs and provide technical leadership to project teams, ensuring approved integration patterns and architectures are consistently applied throughout detailed design and implementation.
- Proactively identify, assess, and escalate technical and delivery risks, and define alternative technical or functional approaches where required, following established governance and approval processes.
- Define, govern, and approve API standards, frameworks, and processes, ensuring API strategy aligns with broader corporate and technology objectives.
- Represent the team in relevant industry forums, gathering feedback and ensuring external participants can effectively connect to and interoperate with Business-to-Business (B2B) systems in accordance with interface specifications and architectural standards.
- Design and maintain dashboards and reports to track key operational metrics and business SLAs using enterprise application monitoring and observability tools.
- Identify repetitive operational and administrative tasks and develop a roadmap to automate processes, improving platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Partner with enterprise and solution architecture teams to define and evolve integration standards, patterns, and best practices that meet current and future business needs.
- Support project teams in scaling and onboarding new integration environments, providing hands-on assistance with setup, troubleshooting, and resolution of configuration issues to meet project timelines.

Position Requirements
- At least 7+ years of experience managing integration platforms, including installation, configuration, patching, upgrading, and working with vendors to resolve production incidents.




- Proven experience managing middleware products in production active-passive or active-active configurations. This includes regular auditing of configuration files, backup and recovery, tuning alerting frameworks, and migrating applications across sites without data loss to ensure KPIs are met.
- Extensive experience in configuring and operating commercial Enterprise Integration Platforms, with strong expertise in Kong API Gateway, Managed File Transfers, messaging middleware, and webMethods product suites.
- Ability to apply DevOps principles and practices, including implementation and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines to support automated build, test, and deployment processes.
- Robust written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts and influence outcomes with stakeholders.
- Minimum 7 years of experience operating Business-to-Business (B2B) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions, covering design, development, and operational support.
- Practical experience integrating solutions with relational database platforms, including Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL, supporting data access, persistence, and optimisation.
- Experience managing the day-to-day operation, support, and continuous improvement of RESTful APIs and SOAP-based web services.
- Hands-on experience with networking protocols such as HTTPS, SMTP, LDAP, and authentication protocols such as OAuth, OIDC, JWT, and TLS/SSL.
- Experience in system analysis, process design, technical documentation, and ongoing production support activities.
- Proven experience responding to, coordinating, and resolving incidents to restore services within agreed SLAs.

Technical Skills
- Boomi (Cloud and Hybrid)
- RabbitMQ
- webMethods
- API Management (APIM) – Enterprise On-Premises Deployment
- Enterprise Integration Platforms
- Kong API Gateway
- Managed File Transfer (MFT)
- REST and SOAP APIs
- CI/CD and DevOps Practices

Pay: From $120,000.00 per year Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sydney NSW

📌 Senior Integration Specialist (Sydney)
🏢 Duxxel
📍 Sydney