API Platform Architect (Kong Gateway & Konnect) || Onsite- Atlanta, GA (Relocation OK)

Atlanta, GA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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Please find the job description below and let me know your interest.

Position: API Platform Architect (Kong Gateway & Konnect)
Location: Onsite- Atlanta GA (Relocation; OK)
Duration: 6 Months

Job Description

We are seeking a senior API Platform Architect with deep expertise in Kong Konnect Kong Gateway and enterprise API governance to own end-to-end architecture across on-prem and GCP environments. The ideal candidate leads ARB reviews defines API governance standards and drives security observability and scalability design.

Must-Have Skills (Required)

10 years in integration/API architecture - minimum 2 enterprise API gateway programs
Kong Konnect / Kong Gateway - Control Plane Data Plane architecture - on-prem and GCP
decK declarative config workspaces and RBAC - Kong configuration management
Security patterns - mTLS OAuth2/OIDC JWT API keys rate limiting WAF secrets/cert management
Cloud & on-prem - GCP (VPC load balancing) Linux networking fundamentals
Observability integration - Dynatrace logging audit and compliance controls
CI/CD and IaC principles - Git Git branching strategies Terraform pipelines
Experience leading ARB (Architecture Review Board) reviews
Ability to define API governance standards - design-first approach and lifecycle management
Proven experience with target architecture HADR and performance/scalability design
Strong collaboration with Security Network Infra and Product teams

Good to Have (Preferred)

Experience with Apigee/Kong migration programs - multi-org and multi-region topologies
SRE Chaos engineering and resiliency patterns
Service mesh - Istio Linkerd
Cost/performance optimization and capacity sizing for high-TPS gateways
Background in multi-cloud API gateway architectures

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Hi Hope you are doing well Please find the job description below and let me know your interest. Position: API Platform Architect (Kong Gateway & Konnect) Location: Onsite- Atlanta GA (Relocation; OK) Duration: 6 Months Job Description We are seeking a senior API Platform Architect with deep ...