Senior API Gateway Engineer and Middleware Administrator

Senior API Gateway engineer ( Kong & Python)& Middleware Administrator

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior API Gateway engineer & Middleware Administrator with 10-12 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.

Job Requirements

As a key member of our Platform Engineering team, you will be responsible for:

• Developing custom Kong plugins using Lua/Python to implement complex business logic, security policies, and integrations
• Administering Kong Gateway infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability
• Managing enterprise middleware platforms including Oracle Fusion, NGINX, and application servers
• Building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for automated deployment of Kong plugins and middleware components
• Architecting API and integration solutions that power our microservices ecosystem

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.

MUST HAVE SKILLS

1. Kong Plugin Development (2+ years) - MANDATORY

• Strong demonstrated experience in custom Kong plugin development using Lua, Python and Kong PDK
• Strong demonstrated experience in Kong lifecycle management
• Authentication, authorization, transformation, traffic control, and logging plugins
• Plugin testing, debugging, optimization, versioning, and deployment

2. Kong Administration (2+ years) - MANDATORY

• Kong Gateway installation, configuration, and administration
• Architecture, clustering, HA, and load balancing
• Kong Admin API, and best practices
• Service/route/upstream/consumer/plugin management
• Performance tuning, SSL/TLS management, upgrades, monitoring

3. Development (3+ years) - MANDATORY

• Strong demonstrated experience in Lua, Python, Kong SDK and Java

• Microservices, async programming (asyncio), and database connectivity
• Message queue integration (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and Azure SDK
• Middleware automation, ETL scripts, and monitoring solutions
• Testing and code quality

4. Middleware Administration (2+ years) - MANDATORY

App/Web Servers:

• Tomcat/Nginx/IIS/JBoss: Installation, configuration, deployment, tuning, and load balancing

5. CI/CD Pipeline Development (3+ years) - Preferred

• CI/CD pipelines for Kong plugins and middleware
• Automated build/test/deployment, multi-environment strategies
• Quality gates, security scanning, deployment strategies

Education

IC - Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.Mgr & Exec - Typically requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience.

Experience Level

Senior Level