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

Required Skills

Technical

- 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

📌 Technical Engineer - API Gateway (Mumbai)
🏢 Meta Infotech
📍 Mumbai