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Apetan Consulting LLC

KONG DEVELOPER

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Seattle, United states

Mid level

Freelance

19-09-2025

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Skills

Splunk Kubernetes Organization AWS Redis API Management

Job Specifications

KONG APIM ENGINEER

Seattle, WA

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Required skills:

* 5-8 years experience in APIM management tools with a specialization in KONG

* Deep expertise in managing and optimizing API gateways, specifically KONG, and play a key role in implementing, configuring, and maintaining API management solutions for our organization.

* Performance, reliability, and scalability of KONG API Gateway, while also driving integration with other systems and troubleshooting any issues that arise.

* Experience with Kubernetes, Redis cache and any other AWS infra components needed to support Kong in AWS.

* Create scalable, optimized and secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure. Experience to apply kong patches to Kubernetes cluster

* Experience with Observability tool (OTEL framework) with deep skills in Datadog and Splunk for metrics and logs respectively.

* LUA Experience and ideally experience in writing with writing Kong plugins in LUA.

* Experience in migrating APIM platforms (add color)

* Experience working in SaaS environment and enabling application teams to aid with API adoption and onboarding.

About the Company

We are a prominent executive search & selection company, providing a wide range of recruitment solutions for various requirements. We are a team of dedicated professionals offering services across USA. We take pride in the high standards we set ourselves as a recruitment agency, in providing a personalized service to all of our clients.With modern recruitment systems, Apetan is an IT recruitment agency that's always keen to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to technology, in order to maintain efficient ways of working. ... Know more