Description

You will manage and optimize API management solutions with a primary focus on Kong API Gateway.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage API security policies including OAuth, JWT, rate limiting, and IP filtering.
• Design and develop custom Kong plugins using Lua for advanced authentication, logging, and transformations.
• Build and maintain scalable, secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure and apply Kong patches to clusters.
• Monitor API performance and implement distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry to identify bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define API requirements, standards, and onboarding processes.

Required Skills

• 5-8 years of experience in APIM management tools, specializing in Kong.
• Deep expertise in managing Kong API Gateway performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Redis cache, and AWS infrastructure components.
• Proficiency in Lua, specifically for writing and maintaining Kong plugins.
• Hands-on experience with observability frameworks including OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Datadog, and Splunk.
• Experience working in SaaS environments to enable application team API adoption.
• Proven experience migrating APIM platforms.
• Strong understanding of API versioning, documentation, and security best practices.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Apigee Edge.
• Experience performing proxy migrations from Apigee Edge to Kong.

Key Skills

Education

Any Gradute