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Responsibilities
- Design and manage Kong Control Plane and Data Plane environments across multi-region, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and cloud deployments.
- Select and implement DB-less or PostgreSQL-backed Kong architectures.
- Tune Nginx/OpenResty performance and develop custom Kong plugins using Lua and Kong PDK.
- Manage gateway configurations with decK, GitOps, and automated deployment pipelines, including drift detection and zero-downtime deployments.
- Integrate OIDC, OAuth2, JWT, Azure AD, Okta, and Ping Identity authentication.
- Implement mTLS, RBAC, rate limiting, circuit breakers, health checks, fallback handling, and edge caching.
- Integrate Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Datadog for monitoring and observability.
- Establish API governance standards and guide development teams on secure and scalable API practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of overall professional experience.
- At least 4 years of production experience with Kong Enterprise or Kong Open Source.
- Strong knowledge of hybrid-cloud and distributed API gateway architecture.
- Experience with Lua, OpenResty, Go, or Python.
- Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, ingress controllers, and networking.
- Hands-on experience with decK, GitOps, and automated deployment pipelines.
- BTech, MTech, or MCA in IT, CSE, EEE, or ECE with 15 years of full-time education.
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Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.