Role: Kong API Architect
Experience: 8 12 Years
Location: PAN India

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Kong API Architect to design, implement, and govern enterprise API management solutions using Kong Gateway. The role will be responsible for defining API architecture, security, integration patterns, performance, and high availability while working closely with development, cloud, security, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement scalable Kong API Gateway architecture for enterprise applications and microservices.
- Configure and manage Kong Gateway, routes, services, consumers, plugins, upstreams, and load balancing.
- Define API security using OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, API keys, mTLS, and role-based access controls.
- Design API lifecycle, versioning, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and traffic management standards.
- Integrate Kong with REST APIs, microservices, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
- Implement high availability, resiliency, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization for Kong environments.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure/configuration using Kong declarative configuration, DB-less mode,



or Konnect as applicable.
- Troubleshoot complex API gateway, connectivity, security, and performance issues.
- Establish API governance, reusable patterns, standards, and best practices.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD, automation, Docker/Kubernetes, and deployment pipelines.
- Prepare HLD/LLD documents, architecture diagrams, technical specifications, and operational runbooks.
- Provide technical leadership, conduct design reviews, and mentor development/engineering teams.

Essential Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Kong Gateway / Kong API Management.
- Excellent understanding of API Management, REST APIs, microservices, and API security.
- Experience with OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, authentication and authorization.
- Solid knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud environments.
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Good knowledge of Linux, networking, HTTP/HTTPS, JSON, YAML, and scripting.
- Strong architecture, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

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