Freelance Kong Connect & KONG API Gateway

Role : Freelance Kong API Gateway / Kong Konnect Engineer

Company Name : WillWare Technologies

Work Model : Remote / Contract

Experience : 6 Years

Job Title: Kong API Gateway / Kong Konnect Engineer

We are looking for an experienced professional with strong expertise in Kong Gateway and Kong Konnect to design develop secure and manage enterprise API and microservices architectures. The candidate will be responsible for implementing API Gateway solutions API security traffic management monitoring and cloud-native integrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement API Gateway solutions using Kong Gateway
• Configure and manage Kong Konnect control plane and API management platform
• Develop and manage RESTful and microservices-based API architectures
• Configure plugins for authentication authorization rate limiting logging and security
• Implement API lifecycle management and governance
• Work with Kubernetes Docker and cloud-native environments
• Configure API routing load balancing and traffic management
• Integrate APIs with backend applications and third-party services
• Monitor API performance analytics and troubleshooting
• Manage API developer portal and API documentation
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for API deployments
• Ensure high availability scalability and security of API infrastructure

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Kong Gateway
• Experience with Kong Konnect platform
• API Gateway and API Management expertise
• REST API and Microservices architecture
• OAuth2 JWT OpenID Connect
• Kubernetes and Docker
• NGINX concepts
• API Security and Rate Limiting
• YAML JSON
• Linux administration
• CI/CD pipelines
• Monitoring and Logging tools

Experience

• 4 years of API Gateway experience
• 2 years of Kong Gateway/Konnect experience
• Experience in enterprise integration environments

Required Skills:

Kong Connect