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.

- Strong 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.

- Solid architecture, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

📌 Kong API Architect (Bengaluru)
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