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API Developer Lead

2 months ago
United States
Contract
Lead
Backend Engineer
Software Development
Argo CD AWS CI/CD Datadog DNS Envoy Flux GitOps Grafana Helm JWT Kubernetes Linux Load Balancing Nginx OpenAPI OpenSearch Prometheus Secrets Management Splunk TLS
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MKS2 Technologies

MKS2 Technologies

MKS2 Technologies is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT and Cyber Security Services, Strategic Consulting, and Training for Federal Government and Commercial clients. With a focus on long-term relationships and effective...

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2008
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Description

  • Administer and optimize Kong Gateway, including routes, services, plugins, certificates, rate limiting, and logging.
  • Build and extend Kong plugins and manage Kong deployments in Kubernetes using Helm/operator patterns.
  • Define API standards, review API designs, and manage OpenAPI contracts, versioning, and governance.
  • Implement authentication and security patterns, including JWT, claims mapping, key rotation, and AD/LDAP integration.
  • Build and operate Kubernetes resources while managing AWS networking, compute, load balancing, DNS, and secrets.
  • Implement CI/CD and GitOps workflows, automated validation, and environment promotion.
  • Deliver observability through API metering, dashboards, logs, metrics, traces, and SLO reporting.
  • Troubleshoot Linux and container issues and support on-call operations with runbooks and documentation.

Requirements

  • Production experience administering Kong Gateway.
  • Experience building and extending Kong plugins with deep gateway policy knowledge.
  • Strong API design background and expert-level OpenAPI skills.
  • Experience with API governance, including linting, validation, contract testing, and semantic versioning.
  • Kubernetes deployment and troubleshooting experience.
  • DevOps experience with GitOps, CI/CD, and automation.
  • Authentication expertise with JWT and enterprise identity systems.
  • AWS platform experience is preferred.
  • Experience operating Kong at scale in multi-team or multi-tenant environments, including performance tuning and migrations.
  • Familiarity with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
  • Familiarity with service mesh and gateway tools such as Envoy, NGINX, Istio, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana, or ELK/OpenSearch.
  • Knowledge of security practices such as TLS/mTLS, secrets management, and OWASP API security.
  • Experience mentoring teams and setting platform standards is preferred.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work arrangement.
  • Temp-to-hire role with potential conversion based on client requirements.
  • Salary range of $135,000 to $160,000.
  • Opportunity to support the VA Lighthouse Program mission.
  • Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer commitment.

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