Cloud Solution Architect (Kong API Solution Architect ) || Atlanta, GA - Onsite || 6 Months

Atlanta, GA, US • Posted 21 hours ago • Updated 20 hours ago
Contract W2
Contract Corp To Corp
No Travel Required
On-site
$55 - $65/hr
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Job Details

Skills

  • API
  • Kong Konnect
  • Kong Gateway
  • GCP
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • High Availability
  • Shell scripting
  • Apigee
  • Kubernetes
  • GKE
  • KONG
  • RBAC
  • Dynatrace
  • Network Design
  • TPS

Summary

Client : TCS

Role: Senior API Solution Architect
Location: Atlanta, GA - Onsite
Duration: 6 months
Max Pay Rate : CTC Rate : $65/hr -  W2 Rate : $59/hr

Exp : 10+ yrs Req 

  

Role Overview

  • Own end‑to‑end architecture for Kong Konnect and Kong Gateway (Control Plane / Data Plane) across on‑premise and Google Cloud Platform environments
  • Lead Architecture Review Board (ARB) reviews and define: Target architecture, Security, High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR), Observability, Performance and scalability design
  • Define API governance standards, design‑first approach, and API lifecycle management
  • Collaborate with Security, Network, Infrastructure, and Product teams

 

Mandatory Skill Requirements

  • Strong Solution Architect experience with Kong
  • Google Cloud Platform platform experience
  • Terraform
  • GKE / Kubernetes
  • Shell scripting
  • Apigee

 

Must‑Have Technical Skills

  • 10 years of experience in integration and API architecture with at least two enterprise API gateway programs
  • Kong Konnect Gateway architecture including: RBAC, deck, Declarative configuration, Workspaces
  • Security patterns including: mTLS, OAuth2 / OIDC, JWT, API keys, Rate limiting, WAF
  • Cloud and on‑prem experience including: Google Cloud Platform (VPC, load balancing), Linux, Networking fundamentals
  • Observability integration including Dynatrace and logging
  • Audit and compliance controls
  • CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles including: Git, Git branching, Terraform pipelines

Good‑to‑Have Technical Skills

  • Experience with Apigee to Kong migration programs
  • Multi‑org and multi‑region topology experience
  • SRE, chaos engineering, and resiliency patterns
  • Service mesh technologies such as Istio and Linkerd
  • Cost and performance optimization

Capacity sizing for high‑TPS API gateway

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  • Dice Id: agsinc
  • Position Id: 8928822
  • Posted 21 hours ago
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