Kong API Engineer

Neevglobal — United Kingdom · Posted ~3 hours ago

Skills

Golang or Lua Cloud-native operations API management OpenAPI Specification REST APIs OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect JWT Key authentication mTLS CI/CD Kubernetes Terraform Golang Lua Kong Apigee MuleSoft OpenAPI OIDC AWS ECS EKS MSK

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Join a technical team building and operating cloud-native API infrastructure. You will design and secure REST APIs, work with API gateways, implement authentication and authorization standards, and automate delivery through CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Experience with AWS and strong programming skills in Golang or Lua are valuable.

Highlights

Work on cloud-native API infrastructure with modern security, automation, Kubernetes, Terraform, and API management technologies. The role offers exposure to AWS and hands-on work with API gateways.

Description

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills · Programming languages: Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages - Golang or Lua Script. · Cloud-native operations: Practical, hands-on cloud-native experience. · API management: Professional experience with API management technologies (e.g., Apigee, Kong, or MuleSoft). · API design: Strong understanding of the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) for RESTful APIs. · API security: Hands-on experience securing APIs at the gateway, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT validation, key-auth, and mutual TLS (mTLS). · DevOps toolchain: Expertise across the DevOps toolchain, including CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills · AWS: Experience with AWS services, including ECS, EKS, and MSK. · API gateway: Hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway. · Golang: Proficiency in the Golang programming language. · Lua: Proficiency in the Lua program