Akumen, Inc.
Senior API Gateway Engineer
Reston, VA · Senior
No sponsorshipDetected 12 days ago
GitAWSAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleHelmCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaRESTOAuthOpenAPICybersecurityZero TrustLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- This role requires deep expertise in API management, gateway architecture, cloud-native technologies, and enterprise integration.
- You will serve as a technical leader responsible for designing, deploying, configuring, and supporting Kong Enterprise and related API gateway technologies that enable secure, scalable, and highly available application integration.
- Akumen, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, configure, and maintain enterprise API gateway solutions using Kong Enterprise or comparable API management platforms.
- Develop secure API routing, traffic management, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, policy enforcement, and certificate management solutions.
- Lead API gateway modernization and migration initiatives, including legacy platform migration, configuration validation, and production cutovers.
- Configure and support developer portals, API catalogs, self-service onboarding, and API lifecycle management capabilities.
- Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and operations teams to implement secure and scalable integration solutions.
- Support containerized deployments using Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker while ensuring platform scalability and resiliency.
- Develop architecture documentation, implementation guides, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer materials.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
- Five (5) or more years of experience implementing, administering, or supporting enterprise API gateway platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Kong Enterprise, Kong Konnect, or other enterprise API management platforms such as IBM webMethods, Apigee, MuleSoft, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, or WSO2.
- Experience designing secure RESTful APIs, OpenAPI specifications, authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT), and API lifecycle management.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development workflows, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps practices.
- Experience implementing Kong Enterprise within Kubernetes or OpenShift environments.
- Experience with Docker, Helm, Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, or other automation technologies.
- Experience integrating API gateways with enterprise identity providers such as Active Directory, Azure AD, LDAP, or SAML solutions.
- Familiarity with observability platforms including Grafana, Prometheus, AppDynamics, ELK Stack, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience supporting Department of State, DoD, or other Federal Civilian agencies.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance
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