Kong API Architect
Present architecture decisions, roadmaps, and progress updates to senior leadership and project stakeholders. Engage with cross-functional teams including API developers,...
Job Description
Present architecture decisions, roadmaps, and progress updates to senior leadership and project stakeholders. Engage with cross-functional teams including API developers, DevOps teams, Product owners, and business stakeholders to understand functional requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance API gateway solutions using Kong Gateway (OSS or Enterprise). Set up and manage Kong plugins for Authentication, Rate limiting, throttling and ensure compliance with internal security policies and external regulations. Integrate Kong with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and configuration management.
Mandatory skills: Tools & Technologies Often Used can include Kong Gateway / Konnect, Terraform / Ansible, Docker / Kubernetes, Git / GitHub / GitLab, Prometheus / Grafana / ELK.
Desired skills: Kong, API management.