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Job Overview:

The Senior Engineer, Middleware API Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in IBM DataPower and Kong provides senior-level operational and architectural support for API gateway and messaging infrastructure. This role drives continuous improvement, automation, and governance for DataPower and Kong platforms.

Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, upgrade, and patch Kong Gateway (Enterprise) across Dev, Test, and Production environments.
- Manage Kong entities — services, routes, consumers, plugins, upstreams, certificates,



and workspaces — via the Admin API, decK, and Terraform.
- Design and enforce plugin policies: rate limiting, OAuth 2.0/OIDC/JWT authentication, mTLS, request/response transformation, logging, and correlation-ID injection.
- Maintain and tune Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) configurations on Kubernetes clusters.
- Oversee Kong Manager (GUI) and Kong Developer Portal — access control, API documentation publishing, and developer onboarding.
- Act as Level 2/3 on-call support for Kong-related production incidents (P1/P2).
- Investigate and resolve gateway-layer issues: 4xx/5xx error spikes, latency outliers, plugin misconfigurations, upstream connectivity failures, and TLS certificate expiry.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and author post-incident reports with corrective actions.
- Triage support tickets from internal API consumers and coordinate with upstream service owners.
- Maintain and

📌 Sr Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 LPL Financial
📍 Hyderabad