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<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Job Summary</H2> </div><div><p>We are seeking a highly skilled Senior API Gateway engineer & Middleware Administrator with 10+ years of experience to architect, develop, and manage our API gateway and enterprise middleware infrastructure. This role combines strong demonstrated hands-on development expertise in Lua and Python with deep operational knowledge of Kong API Gateway and enterprise middleware platforms.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Job Requirements</H2> </div><div><p>As a key member of our Platform Engineering team, you will be responsible for:</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Developing custom Kong plugins using Lua/Python to implement complex business logic, security policies, and integrations</li> <li>Administering Kong Gateway infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability</li> <li>Managing enterprise middleware platforms including Oracle Fusion, NGINX, and application servers</li> <li>Building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for automated deployment of Kong plugins and middleware components</li> <li>Architecting API and integration solutions that power our microservices ecosystem</li> </ul> <p>The ideal candidate is a technical expert who thrives at the intersection of development and operations, possesses strong coding skills in Lua and Python, has proven experience managing enterprise middleware at scale, and brings a DevOps mindset to automate and optimize platform operations.</p> <p>1. Kong Plugin Development (2+ years) - MANDATORY</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Strong demonstrated experience in custom Kong plugin development using Lua, Python and Kong PDK</li> <li>Strong demonstrated experience in Kong lifecycle management</li> <li>Authentication, authorization, transformation, traffic control, and logging plugins</li> <li>Plugin testing, debugging, optimization, versioning, and deployment</li> </ul> <p>2. Kong Administration (2+ years) - MANDATORY</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Kong Gateway installation, configuration, and administration</li> <li>Architecture, clustering, HA, and load balancing</li> <li>Kong Admin API, and best practices</li> <li>Service/route/upstream/consumer/plugin management</li> <li>Performance tuning, SSL/TLS management, upgrades, monitoring</li> </ul> <p>3. Development (3+ years) - MANDATORY</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Strong demonstrated experience in Lua, Python, Kong SDK and Java</li> </ul> <ul type="disc"> <li>Microservices, async programming (asyncio), and database connectivity</li> <li>Message queue integration (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and Azure SDK</li> <li>Middleware automation, ETL scripts, and monitoring solutions</li> <li>Testing and code quality</li> </ul> <p>4. Middleware Administration (2+ years) - MANDATORY</p> <p>App/Web Servers:</p> <ul> <li>Tomcat/Nginx/IIS/JBoss: Installation, configuration, deployment, tuning, and load balancing</li> </ul> <p>5. CI/CD Pipeline Development (3+ years) - Preferred</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>CI/CD pipelines for Kong plugins and middleware</li> <li>Automated build/test/deployment, multi-environment strategies</li> <li>Quality gates, security scanning, deployment strategies</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Education</H2> </div><div>IC - Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.Mgr & Exec - Typically requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience.</div></div></div>