For W2 - API Gateway Engineer (IBM API Connect & Kong)

KPG99 INC is seeking an API Gateway Engineer to design, deploy, and manage APIs using IBM API Connect and Kong. The role involves developing API assemblies, managing catalogs and subscriptions, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with various teams to ensure security and performance optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage APIs using IBM API Connect (APIC) and Kong (OSS/Enterprise)
• Develop APIC assemblies (policies, GatewayScript, XSLT) and configure routing, rate limiting, OAuth/JWT, and mTLS
• Manage catalogs, products, plans, subscriptions, and developer portal integrations
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for gateway configurations using GitOps practices
• Establish monitoring and observability (logs, metrics, tracing) and maintain SLOs
• Enforce security controls including WAF, threat protection, schema validation, and secrets management
• Lead API gateway migrations (Kong ↔ APIC) and optimize performance and scalability
• Collaborate with security, networking, and application teams (DNS, TLS, certificates, IP allowlists)

Requirements:

• 5+ years of API gateway experience
• 2+ years hands-on with IBM API Connect (v10) and Kong
• Strong knowledge of REST, SOAP, OpenAPI
• Expertise in OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, TLS/mTLS
• Experience with DataPower, APIC policies, GatewayScript, XSLT, Products & Plans
• CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Observability tools: Splunk/ELK, Prometheus/Grafana