SB-1457-AI engineer (MCP integration)

Softobiz Technologies India

Job Location:

Kochi - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Software Development

Job Summary

AI engineer (MCP integration)

Role Summary

We are looking for an MCP Integration Specialist to own how our AI systems connect to third-party services issue trackers repositories CI/CD test tooling observability and ticketing through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This is a hands-on integration engineering role focused on safe governed production-grade connectivity to external tools.

You will build and operate the integration layer end to end: an MCP gateway that terminates authentication and enforces policy on every tool call vendor and custom MCP servers and the credential and trust controls that keep external connections secure. You treat every external service as untrusted by default and design for least privilege. We are looking for a candidate with a strong academic record and solid computer-science fundamentals (data structures algorithms and problem-solving) alongside hands-on integration experience.

Key Responsibilities

MCP Gateway & Secure Egress

Build and operate an MCP gateway as the single egress for all agent tool calls: authentication termination policy evaluation per call signature pinning per-tenant credential injection and tracing immutable audit logging.
Implement OAuth 2.1 flows (PKCE RFC 9728 / RFC 8414 discovery Dynamic Client Registration) and move credentials into a secrets manager / vault.
Standardise on Streamable HTTP transport; reject insecure or deprecated transports; keep audit entries atomic with each outbound call.

Third-Party Service Integration

Wire vendor-official MCP servers to the right consumers e.g. Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) Azure DevOps GitHub/GitLab Linear Notion for project & code; Playwright Postman SonarQube Snyk Semgrep for test & quality; Kubernetes Terraform ArgoCD PagerDuty Slack for deploy & alerting.
Map each integration to the data it reads and writes and enforce allow-listed tool surfaces and human-in-the-loop approval on write operations.
Run connection tests and validate reads/writes end to end against different tool stacks.

Building MCP Servers

Author custom MCP servers to fill ecosystem gaps using a shared server SDK/scaffold with clean typed tool schemas and safe write semantics.
Fork and harden community servers where vendor-official options do not exist.

Integration Governance & Security

Maintain a curated registry of integrations with trust tiers (vendor-official / community / custom-built) and a per-tenant connection store (allow-list approval flags redacted auth summary last-test result).
Hold a hard security posture: treat all servers as untrusted vet against canonical registries run vulnerability/signature scanning and author policy-as-code (OPA / Rego) for tool-call authorisation.
Stay current on integration and supply-chain risks (tool poisoning prompt injection command injection dependency compromise); maintain integration docs and runbooks.

Collaboration

Partner with AI/application engineers (the consumers of these integrations) and platform engineers (secrets networking gateway deployment).
Engage external vendor teams on support and roadmap where needed.
Contribute to engineering standards and delivery cadence.

Required Technical Skills

Domain	Skills & Technologies	Must / Preferred
CS Fundamentals & DSA	Data structures algorithms complexity analysis strong problem-solving	Must
MCP	Model Context Protocol clients & servers Streamable HTTP resources/tools	Must
API Integration	Designing & consuming REST/JSON APIs; webhooks; schema/contract validation; rate limits & retries	Must
Auth & Identity	OAuth 2.1 (PKCE DCR) RFC 9728 / RFC 8414 discovery token lifecycle API-key hardening	Must
Programming	Python 3.10; Go for gateway / edge services	Must
Policy & Secrets	OPA / Rego policy-as-code; HashiCorp Vault (or equivalent) for credential injection	Must
Integration Security	Signature/vulnerability scanning untrusted-server posture prompt-injection & tool-poisoning awareness	Must
Vendor Tooling	GitHub Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) Azure DevOps Linear Slack PagerDuty SonarQube Snyk Postman etc.	Must
Observability	OpenTelemetry spans audit logging for every tool call	Preferred
Platform	Kubernetes deployment of gateway & servers containerisation	Preferred
Server Authoring	Building MCP servers; typed tool schemas safe write semantics	Preferred
Agentic Context	Familiarity with LLM agents as MCP clients; tool-calling patterns	Preferred

Qualifications & Certifications

Strong academic record / B.E. / / MCA in Computer Science or a related field from a reputable institution (or equivalent).
23 years in software / integration engineering with hands-on third-party API and systems-integration work.
Strong data structures algorithms and problem-solving skills.
Hands-on MCP experience (building or integrating MCP servers/clients) is a strong plus; otherwise solid API-integration depth with eagerness to ramp on MCP.

Preferred Certifications

OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect or relevant identity/security certification
Any recognised cloud certification (Azure / AWS / GCP) is a plus

Soft Skills & Cultural Fit

Security-first instinct assumes external services are hostile until proven otherwise.
Strong analytical and debugging skills across system boundaries (auth networking schema mismatches).
Clear written communication produces precise integration docs and runbooks.
Collaborative; comfortable engaging both internal engineers and external vendor teams.

What We Offer

Ownership of the entire third-party integration surface for our AI systems.
Deep current work with MCP the de-facto agent integration substrate and a real gateway/security stack (OAuth 2.1 OPA Vault).
Competitive compensation with a structured performance review process.
Professional development support certifications conferences and access to emerging tooling.
Collaborative transparent culture with clear growth pathways toward Staff / Principal engineering.

About Softobiz

Softobiz is a technology firm. We build software and run dedicated offshore teams Global Capability Centres for a portfolio of international clients across multiple markets. We are looking for an Operations Manager to run the operations of the whole business: the delivery

engine behind our GCCs and the day-to-day running of the company itself. Just as important we want someone who treats operations as something to be continuously sharpened not just kept running. A core part of this role is reviewing how we work redesigning processes that are manual or inefficient automating them and bringing AI deeply into how the operation runs. We are a technology company and we expect our operations to reflect that. Strategy and commercials sit with leadership; your job is to make the operation run make it run better over time report on it clearly and escalate the right things at the right time. You will have an operations support resource handling day-to-day administrative and coordination tasks beneath you.

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AI engineer (MCP integration)Role SummaryWe are looking for an MCP Integration Specialist to own how our AI systems connect to third-party services issue trackers repositories CI/CD test tooling observability and ticketing through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This is a hands-on integration en...