Kong Technical Lead

Kong Technical Lead

Experience. – 8 – 12

Location – Pan India

• Design, develop, and manage services, routes, and plugins within Kong Gateway
• Familiarity with API lifecycle stages (design, publish, monitor, retire) and governance practices
• Develop custom Kong plugins using Lua, including pre-function and post-function logic
• Deep understanding of the A_P_I_ _G_a_t_e_w_a_y_’s_ _r_o_l_e_ _in API-led architecture and overall microservices landscape
• Strong understanding of REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications.
• Knowledge of API versioning, rate limiting, and throttling strategies.
• Deep knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, API key mechanisms.
• Work with observability and monitoring tools like Dynatrace to ensure system reliability and performance
• Ensure test coverage and support automation of API tests
• Utilize tools like Postman, SOAPUI, and Insomnia for API testing and validation
• Use decK (Declarative Configuration for Kong) for API Gateway configuration and deployment
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for automating deployment of API Gateway configurations (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AzureDevOps etc.).
• Experience or exposure to service mesh technologies is a plus
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud networking is highly desirable
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork capabilities
• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively in a remote setting
• Ability to collaborate with architects, backend/frontend developers, and security teams
• Collaborate effectively in a remote, globally distributed team, working in an onsite-offshore model
  1. Documentation: Experience writing or maintaining API documentation, ideally using tools like Swagger UI, Redoc, or Postman Collections.
  2. Agile Development Experience:

OFFICIAL

• 1. Comfort working in Scrum or Kanban teams.
  2. Familiarity with story estimation, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
  3. Work with collaboration and monitoring tools such as Jira, Confluence, Splunk, and Dynatrace

Deliver

No	Performance Parameter	Measure
1	Process	No. of cases resolved per day, compliance to process and quality standards, meeting process level SLAs, Pulse score, Customer feedback, NSAT/ ESAT
2	Team Management	Productivity, efficiency, absenteeism
3	Capability development	Triages completed, Technical Test performance