Competencies: 10+ years experience required
Application Programming Interface (API)
Role Description:
Role Overview
Own endtoend architecture for Kong Konnect and Kong Gateway (Control Plane Data Plane) across onprem and Google Cloud Platform.
Lead ARB reviews, target architecture, security, HADR, observability, and performance-scalability design.
Define API governance standards, design-first approach and lifecycle management collaborate with Security, Network, Infra and Product teams.
Must-Have Technical Skills:
10 years in integration-API architecture with at least 2 enterprise API gateway programs.
Kong KonnectGateway architecture, decK, declarative config, workspaces, RBAC.
Security patterns mTLS, OAuth2OIDC, JWT, API keys, rate limiting, WAF, secretscert management.
Cloud onprem Google Cloud Platform (VPC, load balancing), Linux, networking fundamentals.
Observability integration (Dynatracelogging), audit and compliance controls.
CICD and IaC principles (Git, Git branching, Terraform pipelines).
Good to Have Technical Skills:
Experience with ApigeeKong migration programs and multiorg multiregion topologies.
SREChaosresiliency patterns service mesh (IstioLinkerd).
Costperformance optimization and capacity sizing for highTPS gateways.