Capgemini

Kong API Engineer

Capgemini
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4 days ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, implementation, deployment, and adoption of Kong API Gateway solutions for enterprise customers.
  • Facilitate technical workshops and provide architecture guidance across API, integration, security, and platform domains.
  • Perform hands-on engineering, configuration, and troubleshooting for Kong platform implementations.
  • Collaborate with architects, developers, business stakeholders, and operations teams on project outcomes.
  • Define and promote best practices, governance standards, security controls, and reusable automation frameworks.
  • Create technical documentation, share knowledge, mentor colleagues, and contribute to continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Be an Australian Citizen with an active AGSVA Baseline clearance or higher.
  • Have 8+ years of experience delivering enterprise integration platforms and services.
  • Have 5+ years of hands-on experience with API Gateway or API Management solutions, preferably Kong.
  • Demonstrate strong hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway, API integrations, and Kong Konnect.
  • Have experience in large-scale, regulated enterprise environments.
  • Understand APIs, microservices, and API-led integration architectures.
  • Have experience with Kubernetes, containers, Terraform, decK, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
  • Have knowledge of DevOps, networking, and AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud platforms.
  • Have experience implementing OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, and mTLS API security controls.
  • Be proficient with Linux and cloud-native technologies.
  • Have experience working in Agile and/or Waterfall delivery environments.
  • Demonstrate communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and technical and executive engagement skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working and flexible working arrangements are provided, with the role based in Sydney, Melbourne, or Canberra.
  • Employees receive learning and development opportunities, including thinktanks, hackathons, access to 250,000 courses, and external certifications.
  • Capgemini offers core and flexible benefits and a Peer Recognition Portal called Celebrate.
  • The company promotes career growth, inclusion, diversity, and work-life balance.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Capgemini

About Capgemini

10,000+ employees

Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.

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