KONG API Management (APIM) Engineer

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 5years

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

KONG API Management (APIM) Engineer:

Location

Local to Chicago is preferred (hybrid/on-site as required)

Experience Requirements

Total Experience: 8 years in software engineering integration or platform engineering roles

KONG / API Management Experience: 12 years of hands-on experience with KONG API Management

Roles and Responsibilities

Design configure and support APIs using the KONG API Management platform including gateway routing plugins and policy configurations.

Provide hands-on implementation and operational support for RESTful APIs and JSON-based integrations.

Implement and manage API security using OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect and related authentication and authorization mechanisms.

Support API lifecycle management including onboarding versioning documentation and deprecation.

Participate in APIM migration initiatives including assessment planning and execution of migrations from legacy or alternate API management platforms to KONG.

Collaborate with application development platform and security teams to onboard APIs and ensure adherence to enterprise standards.

Troubleshoot and resolve API gateway performance security and connectivity issues across development test and production environments.

Monitor API traffic usage and performance metrics and proactively identify and remediate issues.

Support CI/CD pipelines for API and gateway configuration deployments where applicable.

Participate in design reviews code reviews and technical discussions related to API and integration architecture.

Develop and maintain technical documentation and provide knowledge transfer to support teams.

Operate with minimal supervision while contributing to continuous improvement of the APIM platform.

Must-Have Technology Stack

KONG API Management Platform (hands-on configuration and support)

RESTful API design and development

JSON-based integrations

OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect authentication frameworks.

API security concepts (JWT token validation rate limiting)

API lifecycle management

Version control systems (Git or equivalent)

Nice-to-Have Technology Stack

Experience with APIM migration projects.

Docker and Kubernetes exposure

CI/CD tools for API deployment and configuration

Cloud platform experience (AWS Azure or GCP)

Monitoring and logging tools used in API ecosystems.

Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns and middleware.

KONG API Management (APIM) Engineer: Location Local to Chicago is preferred (hybrid/on-site as required)Experience Requirements Total Experience: 8 years in software engineering integration or platform engineering rolesKONG / API Management Experience: 12 years of hands-on experience with KONG API ...