Platform Engineering Role specifically for the Kong Project
Years of Experience
8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles which a focus on cloud infrastructure automation.
Kong / APIM Management Experience: Minimum 3+ years of experience in API Gateway architecture, operations, and engineering (e.g., Kong Gateway, Google Apigee, Amazon API Gateway)
Minimum 3+ years of experience in Mesh architecture, operations, and engineering (e.g., Kong Mesh, Istio, Linkerd, Consul)
Knowledge of API design principles and micro-service architecture
Solid understanding of networking, network policies, load balancing, and API Gateways.
Experience implementing authentication, authorization, rate limiting, caching, monitoring for API Gateway and Mesh.
Required:
Experience in developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Helm.
Hand-on experience designing and building CI / CD Pipelines integrating security, testing, and best practices.
Proficient in programming languages (Python, Go, or similar) and scripting languages for automation tasks (Bash and/or PowerShell).
Experience building scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure platforms in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Extensive experience with AWS Services and container platforms (e.g., ECS Fargate, EKS, Lambda, IAM, Secrets Manager).
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
Familiar with Security best practices ensuring compliance with industry standards and company policies.
Preferred:
Demonstrated experience designing and managing highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure.
Experience designing and managing multi-region/distributed systems for high availability.
Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry) for monitoring and alerting.
Hands-on experience with incident management, troubleshooting, and post-mortem processes for production environments.
Experience building reusable frameworks and infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, and CI/CD to enable self-service and automation.
Experience with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
Comfortable driving technical discussions and aligning cross-functional teams to meet goals.
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