Role & responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage API Gateway platforms (e.g., Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, Mulesoft)

Collaborate with the application team to gather requirements, define plugin functionality, and integrate APIs.

Develop and maintain custom plugins (Authentication & authorization, Transformations, Security plugins) for API Gateway platforms (e.g., Kong, Apigee, or similar) using Lua, Python, and Java.

Implement and manage security controls such as:

Authentication & authorization (OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS)

Rate limiting, throttling, IP filtering

Security plugins (Bot detection, IP restriction, JSON Threat Protection)

Develop and maintain shared gateway policies (logging, caching, transformation)

Support application teams with onboarding, troubleshooting, and optimization

Integrate Kong API Gateway with observability and analytics platforms like Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Splunk, and Prometheus to enable centralized API monitoring and logging.

Monitor API performance, availability, and usage metrics





Enabled real-time API traffic indexing into Elasticsearch or similar tool for monitoring, troubleshooting, and audit purposes.

Integrated API Gateway logs and metrics with Elasticsearch-based observability stacks (ELK).

Integrate API gateways with CI/CD pipelines

Act as an escalation point for API gateway issues

Preferred candidate profile

Robust understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger

Hands-on experience with API Gateway platforms

API security standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS)

Experience with rate limiting, caching, traffic shaping

Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Scripting / automation (Python, Bash, Terraform)

Monitoring & logging tools (Prometheus, Splunk, ELK)

Functional

API onboarding

API availability and latency

Security incidents related to APIs

Platform stability and scalability

Cross-team collaboration

Incident management & troubleshooting

Documentation and knowledge sharing

📌 API Gateway (Mumbai)
🏢 Meta Infotech
📍 Mumbai