Apic And Kong Engineer

Design, implement, and operate APIs on IBM API Connect and Kong gateways
Build assemblies (policies, GatewayScript/XSLT), routing, rate limiting, auth (OAuth/JWT), mTLS
Implement CI/CD for gateway configs (GitOps), environments, and automated promotions
Configure catalogs, products, plans, subscriptions, and developer portal integrations
Observability: logging, metrics, tracing, analytics; SLOs and error budgets
Security hardening: WAF, threat protection, schema validation, zero trust, secrets management
Migrations: proxy/API gateway transitions (Kong ↔ APIC)
Troubleshoot performance, capacity, and reliability issues; conduct load tests
Partner with app teams, security, and networking (DNS, TLS, certificates, IP allowlists)

Requirements:

5+ years in API gateways; 2+ years each with APIC and Kong
Strong in REST/SOAP/OpenAPI, OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, mTLS/TLS, certificates (PEM/PFX/P12)
Kong (OSS/Enterprise)
IBM API Connect (v10): Assembly policies, DataPower, GatewayScript, XSLT, products/plans
Infra: CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins)
Observability: Splunk/ELK, Prometheus/Grafana