Lead API Developer
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API Developer Lead at MKS2 Technologies improving critical VA data access through secure APIs. Fully remote role requiring extensive experience in API design and management.
Responsibilities:
- Administer and optimize Kong Gateway (routes, services, plugins, certificates, rate limiting, logging).
- Build and extend Kong plugins and manage Kong in Kubernetes (Helm/operator patterns, upgrades, config promotion).
- Define API standards, review API designs, and manage OpenAPI (OAS) contracts, versioning, and governance.
- Implement authentication and security patterns (JWT, claims mapping, key rotation, AD/LDAP integration).
- Build and operate Kubernetes resources; manage AWS networking, compute, load balancing, DNS, and secrets.
- Implement CI/CD and GitOps workflows, automated validation, and environment promotion.
- Deliver observability: API metering, dashboards, logs/metrics/traces, SLO reporting.
- Troubleshoot Linux/container issues and support on-call operations with runbooks and documentation.
Requirements:
- Production experience administering Kong Gateway.
- Experience building/extending Kong plugins and deep gateway policy knowledge.
- Strong API design background and expert-level OpenAPI skills.
- API governance (linting, validation, contract testing, semantic versioning).
- Kubernetes deployment and troubleshooting.
- DevOps practices (GitOps, CI/CD, automation).
- Authentication expertise with JWT and enterprise identity systems.
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